Definitions for humor

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humor hu·mor

Spelling: [hyoo-mer or, often, yoo-]

IPA: /ˈhyu mər or, often, ˈyu-/

Humor is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in humor (hmoru).

Definitions for humor

noun

1. a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement:
2. the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical:
3. an instance of being or attempting to be comical or amusing; something humorous:
4. the faculty of expressing the amusing or comical:
5. comical writing or talk in general; comical books, skits, plays, etc.
6. humors, peculiar features; oddities; quirks:
7. mental disposition or temperament.
8. a temporary mood or frame of mind:
9. a capricious or freakish inclination; whim or caprice; odd trait.
10. (in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution.
11. any animal or plant fluid, whether natural or morbid, as the blood or lymph.

Idioms

1. out of humor, displeased; dissatisfied; cross:

verb (used with object)

1. to comply with the humor or mood of in order to soothe or make content or more agreeable:
2. to adapt or accommodate oneself to.

Origin of humor

1300-50; Middle English (h)umour Anglo-French Latin (h)ūmōr- (stem of (h)ūmor) moisture, fluid (medical Latin: body fluid), equivalent to (h)ūm(ēre) to be wet (see humid

Examples for humor

As ever, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show crew encouraged us to find some humor alongside the horror and the shame.

There are moments of humor even, and friendship and love, and there are moments of religion, or lack of religion.

He did not believe Hines; yet he had to humor him, in a measure.

Rosenfeld eyed him suspiciously, but, possessing a sense of humor also, he grinned.

Women also reported initiating sex more frequently with partners who had a sense of humor.

They recognized the humor hidden in the answer, and enjoyed it.

It is not humor that is irreverent, but the mind that gives it the wrong turn.

But either Epimetheus had not heard the tap, or was too much out of humor to notice it.

But he also kept his sense of humor, some of it self-deprecating.

Some cuts, a few slight character changes, an idea or two about putting some humor into the script.