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Synonyms for humor
ˈhyu mər; often ˈyu-hu·mor

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. humornoun

    : To pacify by indulging.

    I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

    Synonyms:
    comedy, wit, amusingness, comicality

  2. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    bodily fluid

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. humor

    An intellectual fancy is a mental image or picture founded upon slight or whimsical association or resemblance; a conceit has less of the picturesque and more of the theoretic than a fancy; a conceit is somewhat aside from the common laws of reasoning, as a fancy is lighter and more airy than the common mode of thought. A conceit or fancy may be wholly unfounded, while a conception always has, or is believed to have, some answering reality. (Compare REASON.) An intellectual fancy or conceit may be pleasing or amusing, but is never worth serious discussion; we speak of a mere fancy, a droll or odd conceit. An emotional or personal fancy is a capricious liking formed with slight reason and no exercise of judgment, and liable to fade as lightly as it was formed. In a broader sense, the fancy signifies the faculty by which fancies or mental images are formed, associated, or combined. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

    Synonyms:
    belief, caprice, conceit, conception, desire, fancy, idea, image, imagination, inclination, liking, mood, predilection, supposition, vagary, whim

    Antonyms:
    actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

    Preposition:
    To have a fancy for or take a fancy to a person or thing.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. humor

    Synonyms:
    disposition, temper, mood, caprice, jocoseness, pleasantry, frame, drollery, fun

    Antonyms:
    nature, personality, mind, will, purpose, seriousness

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittinessnoun

    a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

    Synonyms:
    liquid body substance, temper, sense of humour, brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mood, brainpower, wittiness, body fluid, mentality, sense of humor, witticism, humour, bodily fluid, card, wag, wit

  2. humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humournoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    temper, body fluid, sense of humor, witticism, humour, liquid body substance, wit, sense of humour, bodily fluid, wittiness, mood

  3. temper, mood, humor, humournoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    liquid body substance, temper, modality, sense of humour, climate, irritability, surliness, biliousness, mode, mood, peevishness, pique, pettishness, wittiness, body fluid, irritation, sense of humor, wit, humour, bodily fluid, snappishness, toughness, witticism

  4. humor, humournoun

    the quality of being funny

    "I fail to see the humor in it"

    Synonyms:
    temper, body fluid, sense of humor, witticism, humour, liquid body substance, wit, sense of humour, bodily fluid, wittiness, mood

  5. humor, humournoun

    (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"

    Synonyms:
    temper, body fluid, sense of humor, witticism, humour, liquid body substance, wit, sense of humour, bodily fluid, wittiness, mood

  6. liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humourverb

    the liquid parts of the body

    Synonyms:
    temper, wittiness, sense of humor, witticism, sense of humour, humour, wit, body fluid, bodily fluid, liquid body substance, mood

  7. humor, humourverb

    put into a good mood

    Synonyms:
    humour

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    moisture

  2. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    cutaneous eruption

  3. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    temper, disposition, bent, bias, vein, propensity, predilection, turn of mind, frame of mind

  4. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    mood, fancy, whim, caprice, freak, vagary, crotchet, whimsey, maggot, WRINKLE

  5. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    pleasantry, facetiousness, jocoseness, jocularity, kindly wit

  6. humorverb

    Synonyms:
    indulge, gratify, give way to, consult the wishes of

  7. humorverb

    Synonyms:
    favor, suit the nature of, meet the requirements of

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    disposition, temper, mood, facetiousness, jocularity, waggery, pleasantry, wit, satire

  2. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    caprices, vagaries, whims, fancies, whimsies

  3. humorverb

    Synonyms:
    indulge, please, gratify, temporize

    Antonyms:
    discipline, deny, curb, mortify

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "humor":

    humour, humorous, mood, comedy

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How to use humor in a sentence?

  1. Paige Braddock:

    I think a little bit of our challenge is introducing fans to Snoopy who maybe don't know Snoopy, but once they discover Snoopy, there are universal truths in the comic that I think appeal to every generation ... because the comic is not just about humor it's about relationships, it's about failures, it's about joy, it really runs the whole range of human emotion and story telling.

  2. Denny Hamlin:

    Clearly my social team has a sense of humor that I don’t share at the moment.

  3. Bertolt Brecht:

    Righteous people have no sense of humor.

  4. Dwight D Eisenhower:

    A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

  5. Umberto Eco:

    The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.


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