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humor::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | humour |
| Type of | quality |
| Has types | comicality |
| Derivation | humorous, humorist |
I fail to see the humor in it.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bodily fluid, body fluid, humour, liquid body substance |
| Type of | body substance |
| Has types | waters, yellow bile, amniotic fluid, cerebrospinal fluid, choler, chyle, come, amnionic fluid, cum, ecf, ejaculate, endolymph, extracellular fluid, festering, blood serum, blood, black bile, ichor, aqueous humour, ink, intracellular fluid, juice, karyolymph, lochia, lymph, melancholy, milk, aqueous humor, perilymph, purulence, pus, sanies, secretion, seed, semen, seminal fluid, serum, spinal fluid, succus, suppuration, vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour |
| Derivation | humoral |
humor::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | humour |
| Type of | body substance |
| Derivation | humoral |
the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile.
humor::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | humour, sense of humor, sense of humour |
| Type of | playfulness, fun |
| Derivation | humorist, humorous |
she didn't appreciate my humor.
you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor.
humor::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | humour, wit, witticism, wittiness |
| Type of | subject matter, message, content, substance |
| Has types | bite, esprit de l'escalier, topper, bon mot, mot, cartoon, play, pungency, sketch, jest, sport, jeu d'esprit, caricature, joke, gag, fun, laugh, repartee, ribaldry, imitation, sarcasm, satire, impersonation, caustic remark, irony, jape |
| Derivation | humorous, humorist |
humor::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | humour, mood, temper |
| Type of | feeling |
| Has types | amiability, sulkiness, sulk, peeve, distemper, ill humor, good temper, good humour, good humor, ill humour |
he was in a bad humor.
Examples of humor
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Neth said new evidence showed that the humor website had indeed swayed the vote.
From the omaha.com
Mr. McDonough's pictures are marked by their humor and fine social distinctions.
From the online.wsj.com
Joe Pesci finds loads of humor as Jake's long-suffering and much-abused brother.
From the kentucky.com
While making it, I was convinced In the Red was putting it out only to humor me.
From the freep.com
She had a great sense of humor, and taught her children to challenge everything.
From the dailyherald.com
The film has a cheeky, geeky sense of humor, but it's also raunchy and fearless.
From the freep.com
Team spirit and good people skills including a good sense of humor are required.
From the jobview.monster.com
Of course they do all of that with an irreverent, often profane, sense of humor.
From the sfgate.com
The books are alternately dark and flippant, with tinges of film noir dry humor.
From the sacbee.com
- Put into a good mood
- Wit: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
- Temper: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
- The quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
- (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
- Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. ...
- (Humors) Humorism, or humoralism, was a theory of the makeup and workings of the human body adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers. ...
- The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.]; Four fluids (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. [from the 15th c. ...
