noun
- A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.
- usage: "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
- A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.
- Middle Ages. ( one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state)
- usage: "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
- synonyms: humor
- The liquid parts of the body.
- synonyms: liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor
- The quality of being funny.
- usage: "I fail to see the humor in it"
- synonyms: humor
- The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous.
- usage: "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
- synonyms: humor, sense of humor, sense of humour
verb
- Put into a good mood.
- synonyms: humor
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