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OUT OF HUMOR

Definition: OUT OF HUMOR

OUT OF HUMOR

1. Dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind. Syn: Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood; frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See Wit .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: OUT OF HUMOR

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dejection

Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen.

Discontent

In high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper.

Pain

Uncomfortable, uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way; disturbed; discontented; out of humor; a; weary.

Resentment

Put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears.

Sullenness

Adjective: sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed; grouty; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly; (discourteous).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: OUT OF HUMOR

English words defined with "OUT OF HUMOR": Dishumor. (references)
Specialty definitions using "OUT OF HUMOR": Chairman. (references)

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Expression: OUT OF HUMOR

Expression using "OUT OF HUMOR": be out of humor. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: OUT OF HUMOR

Language Translations for "OUT OF HUMOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏متعكر المزاج (out of humour). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

без настроение (liverish, livery, off color, off colour, out of humour, out of sorts, petulant, spiritless, washed out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

outay ofay umorhay

   

Romanian

  

nu avea chef (be out of humor, be out of humour). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zlovoljno (humor: out of humor, humour: out of humour). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

del peor humor (out of humour), de mal humor (bad tempered, crossly, irritable, moodily, out of humour). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

på dåligt humör (bad tempered, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, out of humour), misslynt (out of humour). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sinirli (apoplectic, apoplectical, bristly, choleric, discomposedly, edgy, high strung, hot-blooded, hot-headed, huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, in a pet, irate, ireful, irritable, jumpy, liverish, mad, nervous, nervy, on edge, out of humour, peeved, pissed off, ratty, shirty, short tempered, sinewed, sinewy, spunky, testy, uptight, waxy, wild, wrought up), keyifsiz (ailing, blue, cheerless, dejected, dispirited, doleful, down, humorless, humourless, in the doldrums, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of humour, out of sorts, poor spirited, poorly, queer, seedy, sick, under the weather, unwell), canı sıkkın (blue, in the doldrums, out of humour, vexed). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

не в настрої (mumpish, out of humour). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OUT OF HUMOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-h-m-o-o-o-r-t-u-u"

-2 letters: outhumor.

-4 letters: fourth, humour, tumour.

-5 letters: forth, forum, froth, humor, mohur, motor, mouth, ortho, routh, thoro, thrum, tumor.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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