humour
1. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
• Syn:
wit, humor, witticism, wittiness
• Derivationally related forms:
witty (for: wittiness), humourous, humourist, humorous (for: humor), humorist (for: humor), witty (for: wit)
• Members of this Usage Domain:
libation, roaster
• Hypernyms:
message, content, subject matter, substance
• Hyponyms:
jeu d'esprit, bon mot, mot, esprit de l'escalier, pungency,
bite, sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark, repartee,
joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape, caricature,
imitation, impersonation, cartoon, sketch, fun, play,
sport, ribaldry, topper
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
• Syn:
humor, sense of humor, sense of humour
• Derivationally related forms:
humourous, humourist, humorous (for: humor), humorist (for: humor)
• Hypernyms:
playfulness, fun
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
• Syn:
temper, mood, humor
• Derivationally related forms:
humor (for: humor), moody (for: mood)
• Hypernyms:
feeling
• Hyponyms:
peeve, sulk, sulkiness, good humor, good humour,
good temper, amiability, ill humor, ill humour, distemper
4. the quality of being funny
- I fail to see the humor in it
• Syn:
humor
• Derivationally related forms:
humourous, humourist, humorous (for: humor), humorist (for: humor)
• Hypernyms:
quality
• Hyponyms:
comicality
5. (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
• Syn:
humor
• Derivationally related forms:
humoral (for: humor)
• Topics:
physiology, Middle Ages, Dark Ages, antiquity
• Hypernyms:
body substance
6. the liquid parts of the body
• Syn:
liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor
• Derivationally related forms:
humoral (for: humor)
• Hypernyms:
body substance
• Hyponyms:
aqueous humor, aqueous humour, vitreous humor, vitreous humour, vitreous body,
endolymph, perilymph, extracellular fluid, ECF, intracellular fluid, juice,
succus, karyolymph, milk, amniotic fluid, amnionic fluid, waters,
blood, serum, blood serum, chyle, lymph, semen,
seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come, ink,
secretion, black bile, melancholy, yellow bile, choler, lochia,
pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering,
spinal fluid, cerebrospinal fluid
put into a good mood
• Syn:
humor
• Derivationally related forms:
humor (for: humor), humoring (for: humor)
• Hypernyms:
gratify, pander, indulge
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
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