Humor

Definition: Humor

Humor

Noun

1. A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.

2. 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".

3. 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".

4. The quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it".

5. One of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed (in ancient and medieval physiology) to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile".

6. The liquid parts of the body.

Verb

1. Put into a good mood.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "humor" was first used: 1340. (references)

Computing

19th Century Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Humor

Affections

Noun: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy; (love).

Aid

Oblige, accommodate, consult the wishes of; humor, cheer, encourage.

Caprice

Noun: caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; Adjective: kink.

Facility

Render easy; Adjective: facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize; lighten, lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage; deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel; untie the knot, cut the knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate; humor; (aid); lubricate; relieve.

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Fluidity

Fluid, inelastic fluid; liquid, liquor; lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies; chyle.

Intrinsicality

Habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition.

Pain

Bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart,bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart; do one's heart good.

Permission

Verb: permit; give permission; Noun: give power; let, allow, admit; suffer, bear with, tolerate, recognize; concede; accord, vouchsafe, favor, humor, gratify, indulge, stretch a point; wink at, connive at; shut one's eyes to.

Tendency

Noun: tendency; aptness, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift; (direction); conduciveness, conducement; applicability; (utility); subservience; (instrumentality).

Willingness

Disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent; (turn of mind); penchant; (desire);disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent; (turn of mind); penchant; (desire); aptitude.

Wit

Noun: wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry.

Crosswords: Humor

Albanian (cheer, humor, humour, mood, pleasantry, temper), Czech (humor, humour), Dutch (humor, humour, mood, temper), German (humor, humour, mood, temper), Hungarian (humor, humour), Norwegian (humour), Papiamen (humour, mood, temper), Portuguese (esprit, frame, humor, humour, mood, phlegm, wit), Portuguese Brazilian (humor), Serbo-Croatian (humor, humour), Spanish (cheer, disposition, humor, humorous, humour, mood, spirit, spirits, temper), Swedish (humor, humour, jocularity, mood, temper).

Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

I just wanted to see if she had a sense of humor. (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire)

That is humor. I recognize that (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz)

Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have to go with breast size (So I Married an Axe Murderer; writing credit: Robbie Fox.)

The Kremlin's got a hell of a sense of humor. (Rambo III; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone)

Who needs to humor me and tell me lies (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

Yeah humor me and tell me lies (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. (references; author: Mark Twain)

There is truth in humor, but not humor in truth. (references; author: unknown)

You work for a defense contractor if you find humor in Dilbert. (references; author: unknown)

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth: a sense of humor. (references; author: unknown)

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. (references; author: unknown)

Teatro de humor (1974)

Humor a la italiana (1974)

Young People's Concerts: Humor in Music (1959)

Kwis - Examen van de humor (1954)

Humor in hout (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Little Joy, a Little Oy 2003 Block Calendar: A Banquet of Jewish Humor and Wisdom (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Humor (reference)

• Humor & Health Journal (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Loretta LaRoche: Humor Your Stress (reference)

• Sense of Humor (reference)

• Value of a Good Sense of Humor (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Good Humor (reference)

• The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Law office shingle - Either lawyer humor or an avid fisherman. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Humor in names - the F/V LIEN MACHINE tied up at Crosby's Fish & Shrimp Co. Credit: Fisheries.

A hydrodynamically designed towed instrument package with a sense of humor. Credit: Fisheries.

Translated as a "Comfortable position for the traveller!", obviously a bit of humor. The sailor is passing a line over the pulley to keep it from striking end of the boom during Bouree net towing operations. Plate VIII, print 11. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Moma's in a bad humor again. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wit, humor, etc. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Lady Croom: It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them

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Health

Instead, the cornea receives its nourishment from the tears and aqueous humor that fills the chamber behind it. (references)

The endothelium controls hydration by secreting fluid from the corneal stoma to the aqueous humor by ion coupled fluid transport. (references)

Civil Liberties

Czech Republic

In September the Republican Party filed a similar criminal complaint against the League of Ethnic Minorities over a series of public service announcements using humor to discredit far-right and neo-Nazi supporters. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "humor": aqueous humor ♦ be out of humor ♦ black humor ♦ Crystalline humor ♦ devoid of humor ♦ fine sense of humor ♦ gallows humor ♦ good humor ♦ Good humor man ♦ grim humor ♦ hacker humor ♦ have no sense of humor ♦ Humor [Publication Type] ♦ humor a small child ♦ ill humor ♦ in good humor ♦ in the humor ♦ lacking in humor ♦ out of humor ♦ playful humor ♦ popular humor ♦ saving humor ♦ sense of humor ♦ sick humor ♦ Vitreous Humor ♦ when the humor takes him ♦ Wit and Humor ♦ with humor ♦ without humor ♦ wry humor. Additional references.

Ending with "humor": Good-humor.

Albanian

humor (cheer, humour, mood, pleasantry, temper), qejf (amusement, ball, bang, binge, delight, desire, high spirits, humour, luxury, pleasure, temper, zest), plotësoj tekat (humour), përshtatem (adapt oneself, adjust, agree, conform, fit in, humour, respond, shape), ndjenjë humori (humour), kënaq (appease, content, enchant, feast, gratify, humour, indulge, please, regale, satisfy, suffice), i shkoj pas qejfit (humour, indulge), gjendje shpirtërore (fig, frame of mind, habitude, humour, mood, spirit, spiritual state, state of mind, temper, vein), bëj qejf (go on the spree, go to town, humour, jolly, joy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكاهة (anecdote, humour, jest), ‏كيف نفسه (humour), ‏متع (feast, humour, tickle), ‏مزاج (cast of mind, complexion, constitution, disposition, feather, figure, frame, frame of mind, framing, grain, humour, kidney, mettle, mind, mood, nature, spirits, state of mind, temper, temperament, tone, vein), ‏هزل (attenuate, badinage, emaciate, extenuate, fun, humour, joke, languish, peak, pine, pine away, playfulness, pleasantry, reduce, slim, thin), ‏لاطف (be nice, caress, comply, fondle, humour, indulge, molly-coddle, pet, treat well, treat with kindness), ‏سخرية (burlesque, derision, fling, gibe, humour, irony, jeer, lampoon, laughter, mockery, persiflage, quip, ridicule, rub, sarcasm, scoff, scorn, shy, snap, sneer, spoof, taunt, tee-hee, tehee, twit, wit), ‏ساير (get along with, humour), ‏الفكاهة (facetiousness, humour), ‏الخلط (humour), ‏ظرف ظرافة (humour), ‏ظرافة (amiability, elegance, humour), ‏دعابة (frolic, good humor, good humour, humour, jest, jesting, joke, joking, pleasantries), ‏دارى (favor, favour, humour, toddle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

угаждам на (gratify, humour, pamper, please), смешна страна (humour), хумор (humour), чувство за хумор (funny bone, humour, sense of humor, sense of humour), темперамент (habit, humour, mettle, temperament, zip), коткам (featherbed, humour, jolly), глезя (cosher, cosset, dandle, humour, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, pet, slop over, spoil), настроение (cheer, feeling, fit, frame of mind, humour, mood, spirit, temper, tune), нагаждам се към (humour, suit oneself to), зачитам (humour, regard, respect, study). (various references)

Chinese 

幽默 (humorous). (various references)

Czech

humor (humour), rozpoložení (humour), přitakat (humour), nálada (cheer, disposition, humour, mood, spirit, spirits, temper, tuning), mor tkáòový (humour). (various references)

Dutch

humor (humour, mood, temper). (various references)

Esperanto

humuro (humour), humoro (humour, mood, temper). (various references)

Faeroese

tunglyndi (ill humor, ill humour), lívsleiði (ill humor, ill humour). (various references)

Farsi 

مزاح (Prank, Wit), تنابه , خیال (Design, Dump, Fancy, Fiction, Ghost, Idea, Ideology, Imaginary, Impression, Intention, Mind, Notion, Plan, Spectrum, Thought, Vision, Whim, Wraith), خلق (Kidney, Mood, People, Temper, Temperament), خوشی دادن , خوشمزگی (Badinage, Banter, Fun), راضی نگاهداشتن , شوخی (Bob, Curvet, Fun, Game, Gig, Jape, Jest, Jink, Jocosity, Joke, Lark, Pleasantry, Prank, Quiz, Sport, Spree, Witticism). (various references)

French

humour (humour), humeur (humour). (various references)

German

humor (humour, mood, temper). (various references)

Greek 

πνεύμα (esprit, ghost, humour, spirit, wit), χιούμορ (humour), ευαρεστώ (humour, please), ευθυμία (cheer, conviviality, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gayness, glee, hilarity, humour, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, resilience), διάθεση (attitude, cheer, disposal, disposition, humour, mood, spirit, temper, vein). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצב רוח (frame of mind, humour, mood, spirits, temper, temperament), למלא את �"רצון (humour), �"ומור (humour). (various references)

Hungarian

humor (humour), vicc (droll, humour, jape, kid, pleasantry, story, yuck, yuk), testnedv (humour), komikum (humour), kedélyállapot (frame of mind, humour, mood), kedély (cheer, humour, metal, spirit, temper, temperament, tone), hangulat (cue, feel, feeling, frame of mind, humour, mood, moral, morale, perverse mood, tone, way you feel). (various references)

Indonesian

kelucuan (cuteness, joking). (various references)

Italian

umorismo (humour). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ユーコン准州 (eugenics, eunos, euphemism, European television satellite, Eutelsat, euthanasia, euthanasie, submarine, U-boat, UFO, ufology, unidentified flying object, usance, usance bill, used car, user, user interface, user-friendly, users, utility, utility program, utility room, utopia, U-turn, youth, youth hostel, youth market, Yugoslavia, Yukon Territory), 気色 (countenance, looks, mood). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ユーモア , きしょく (countenance, dependency, glad countenance, joyful look, looks, mood, parasitism). (various references)

Korean 

� 머 (humour). (various references)

Pig Latin

umorhay.(various references)

Portuguese

humor (esprit, frame, humour, mood, phlegm, wit). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

humor. (various references)

Romanian

haz (frolic, fun, gracefulness, humour, jocularity, salt, spicery, sport, wit), voie (device, humour, liberty, run, unwilling, will, willingness, wish), umor (humour, jocularity), umoare (humour), toanã (caprice, crotchet, fancy, freak, humour, vagary, whim, whimsy), temperament (blood, complexion, constitution, disposition, humour, kidney, mettle, nature, pepper, spirit, temper, temperament), stare (class, condition, estate, fortune, humour, keep, plight, posture, property, rank, remaining, repose, rest, situation, sort, standing, state, station, way, wealth), satisface (allay, answer, appease, cater for, content, fill, grant, gratify, humour, meet, pander to, please, satisfy, serve, suit), face pe voia cuiva (humour), face pe placul cuiva (humour), dispoziţie (arrangement, condition, disposal, disposition, fondness, humour, inclination, injunction, mandate, mind, mood, nature, order, provision, service, step, stipulation, temper, trim, tune). (various references)

Russian 

юмор;настроение (humour), юмор (drollery, humour), нрав (character, humour, mores, temper), потакать (humour). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

humor (humour), volja (humour, liking, mood, temper, volition, will), smešnost (humour), razveseliti (cheer up, exhilarate, gladden, humour, jollify, jolly), razgaliti (humour), raspoloženje (humour, lightheartedness, mood, spirit, spirit level, temper), povlađivati (humour, indulge, say ditto to). (various references)

Spanish

humor (cheer, disposition, humorous, humour, mood, spirit, spirits, temper). (various references)

Swedish

humor (humour, jocularity, mood, temper). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้พอใจ (get), อารม�"์ขัน, อารม�"์ (emotion, mood, temper, temperament). (various references)

Turkish

huy (blood, character, cheer, constitution, habit, humour, kidney, nature, temper, temperament, vein), hoşuna gitmek (appeal, delight, enjoy, humour, like, please, suit, take pleasure, take with), ruh hali (frame of mind, habit of mind, humour, inward, mood, psychology, spirit, state of mind, temper, tone), neşe (brightness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, esprit, exhilaration, frolic, gaiety, glee, hilarity, humour, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, merriment, mirth, pleasantry, raciness, rejoicing, spirit, sprightliness, sunshine, vivacity), mizah (humorousness, humour, whimsicality, whimsicalness), mizaç (cheer, frame of mind, humour, idiosyncrasy, nature, quality, temperament, vein), memnun etmek (charm, comfort, content, gladden, gratify, humour, indulge, make happy, oblige, please, rejoice, satisfy, suit), suyuna gitmek (dance to smb.'s pipe, dance to smb.'s tune, handle smb. tactfully, humour, keep on the right side of, rub smb. up the right way), salgı (backlash, discharge, excretion, humour, juice, liquor, secretion, secretory), alttan almak (assume a humble attitude, climb down, humour), güldürü (comedy, humour), espri anlayışı (humour, sense of humor, sense of humour), espri (crack, drollery, humour, quip, quirk, Sally, salt, wisecrack, witticism), şaka (badinage, banter, chaff, drollery, fun, game, hell, humour, jest, joke, lark, monkeyshiness, pleasantry, quiz, sport, waggery, waggishness, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism), ayak uydurmak (fall in step with, fall into step with, humour, keep pace with, keep step, keep step with, keep up with, settle, string along, string along with, temporize), keyif (bliss, cheer, conviviality, delight, enchantment, exhilaration, glee, high spirits, humour, joviality, joy, Kef, pleasure, rejoicing, temper). (various references)

Ukrainian

комізм (humour), гумор (drollery, humour), настрій (cheer, cue, disposition, humour, mood, posture, spirit, temper, vein), пристосовуватися (adapt, conform, humour, temporize), почуття гумору (humour), потурати (appease, connive, gratify, humour, pander), догоджати (adulate, cater, humour, please, tickle). (various references)

Welsh

hwyl (religious fervor, sail), arabedd (facetiousness, wit). (various references)

adsentare, festivitate, festivitatem, festivitates, festivitatis, gratificavit, humore, humorem, leporem, obsecuti, obsequentes, obsequi, umor. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "humor": humoral, humored, humoresque, humoresques, humorful, humoring, humorist, humoristic, humorists, humorless, humorlessly, humorlessness, humorlessnesses, humorous, humorously, humorousness, humorousnesses, humors. (additional references)

Words ending with "humor": neurohumor, outhumor. (additional references)

Words containing "humor": neurohumoral, neurohumors, outhumored, outhumoring, outhumors, unhumorous. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Humor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hamir, Hammou, hamor, hemmor, hemor, himo, himor, Hinor, hofmark, hohor, Homco, homor, houmor, Hoxmark, hufoof, humer, Humko, humo, humod, humok, humon, Humora, humore, humour, humur, Huyot, jumar, Shurmur, umo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mohur.

-1 letter: hour.

-2 letters: hum, mho, mor, ohm, our, rho, rom, rum.

-3 letters: hm, ho, mo, mu, oh, om, or, uh, um.

+1 letter: humors, humour, mohurs.

+2 letters: bohrium, homburg, humidor, humoral, humored, humours, mouther, rhodium, rhombus, sorghum, thorium.

+3 letters: bohriums, bothrium, brougham, chromium, chromous, crumhorn, homburgs, humidors, humorful, humoring, humorist, humorous, humoured, krumhorn, mouchoir, mouthers, mouthier, mushroom, outcharm, outhomer, outhumor, outmarch, overmuch, rhodiums, sorghums, thoriums, thrombus, vermouth, warmouth.

+4 letters: amorphous, bothriums, bronchium, broughams, chromiums, crumhorns, farmhouse, harmonium, houseroom, humorists, humorless, humouring, hydronium, krumhorns, krummholz, krummhorn, lunchroom, mouchoirs, mouthpart, mushrooms, outcharms, outhomers, outhumors, rhizobium, rhombuses, touchmark, urochrome, vermouths, warmouths.