[
US
/ˈhjumɝ/
]
NOUN
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the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor
she didn't appreciate my humor -
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 - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- the liquid parts of the body
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the quality of being funny
I fail to see the humor in it -
(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
VERB
- put into a good mood
How To Use humor In A Sentence
- Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
- But if you're just play-acting, RP is all a bit of fun, along with the humorous OOC asides. "Grow till tall. They all, in the end, will fall."
- Another friend showed his great sense of humor in dealing with the obvious statements.
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- This humorous and historically accurate account was extremely well received.
- This bizarre balance ofartistry andseveral layers of humor is consistent throughout. Movie Review: A Town Called Panic (My Choice for Best Animated Film of 2009) | /Film
- The humor in the movie sometimes goes beyond the bounds of good taste.
- Pictures like "Snoball," which portrays a snow-cone shack with a yellow topped cone is softened by his gentle sense of humor: it is almost a "Pop" painting. John Seed: Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass (PHOTOS)
- Not that I don't like talking to you, but I always feel like you're just humoring me when you listen to me rave about this show or that show.
- Dickens'works are also characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.