humor
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Definition
Noun:
- A quality that makes something amusing or comical: The aspect of a situation, communication, or person that evokes laughter or a sense of fun.
- A mood or state of mind: A temporary emotional state or disposition.
- (Historical/Medical) One of the four bodily fluids: In medieval physiology, one of the four cardinal fluids (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile) thought to determine a person's health and temperament.
Verb:
- To indulge or comply with the mood or whims of someone: To adapt one's behavior to soothe or please another person, often by tolerating or going along with their wishes.
Usage and Examples
- Noun (Quality of being funny):
- She has a great sense of humor.
- The story is full of wit and humor.
- Noun (Mood):
- He is in a good humor today.
- Her humor changed suddenly.
- Verb (To indulge):
- Just humor him and agree for now.
- She humored her grandfather by listening to his old stories.
Advanced Usage and Nuances
- "Sense of humor": The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is funny.
- A good sense of humor is an attractive quality.
- "Out of humor": In a bad or irritable mood.
- Be careful, the boss seems out of humor this morning.
- "Gallows humor": A type of humor that arises from stressful, traumatic, or life-threatening situations.
- The emergency room staff sometimes uses gallows humor to cope.
Variants and Related Words
- Humorous (adj): Funny, causing amusement.
- He told a humorous anecdote.
- Humorless (adj): Lacking a sense of humor; overly serious.
- He gave a humorless lecture on office rules.
- Humoral (adj): Pertaining to bodily fluids, especially in historical medical contexts.
- The ancient humoral theory of medicine.
Synonyms
- Noun (Amusement): Comedy, wit, funniness, jocularity.
- Noun (Mood): Temper, disposition, frame of mind, spirits.
- Verb (Indulge): Accommodate, gratify, go along with, pamper.
Phrasal Verbs / Common Constructions
- To humor someone: This is the standard verb construction.
- I knew he was wrong, but I decided to humor him to avoid an argument.
Related Idioms
- "As a humor": (Archaic) In a certain mood.
- He said it in a jesting humor.
- "Every man has his humor": (Proverb) Everyone has their own peculiar temperament or disposition.
Noun
- the liquid parts of the body
- (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
- the quality of being funny
- I fail to see the humor in it
- 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
- 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
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
Verb
- put into a good mood