Definition of
Humour
- (noun, attribute) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor - (noun, attribute) the quality of being funny
- (noun, body) the liquid parts of the body
- (noun, body) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
- (noun, communication) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- (noun, feeling) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
he was in a bad humor - (verb, communication) put into a good mood
- (noun, attribute) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
via WordNet, Princeton University
Synonyms of Humour
bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, liquid body substance, mood, sense of humor, sense of humour, temper, wit, witticism, wittiness
Alternate forms of Humour
Derivations: humour, humourist, humourous
Hyponyms: amiability, amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, aqueous humor, aqueous humour, bite, black bile, blood, blood serum, bon mot, caricature, cartoon, caustic remark, cerebrospinal fluid, choler, chyle, come, comicality, cum, distemper, ecf, ejaculate, endolymph, esprit de l'escalier, extracellular fluid, festering, fun, gag, good humor, good humour, good temper, ichor, ill humor, ill humour, imitation, impersonation, ink, intracellular fluid, irony, jape, jest, jeu d'esprit, joke, juice, karyolymph, laugh, lochia, lymph, melancholy, milk, mot, peeve, perilymph, play, pungency, purulence, pus, repartee, ribaldry, sanies, sarcasm, satire, secretion, seed, semen, seminal fluid, serum, sketch, spinal fluid, sport, succus, sulk, sulkiness, suppuration, topper, vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour, waters, yellow bile
Hypernyms: body substance, content, feeling, fun, gratify, indulge, message, pander, playfulness, quality, subject matter, substance