Synonyms for humour
ˈhyu mərhu·mour

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1. humournoun

   One's state of mind or disposition; one's mood.

   Synonyms:
   mood

2. humournoun

   Synonyms:
   bodily fluid

3. humournoun

   Synonyms:
   wit, comedy, witticism

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1. 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, humor, pettishness, wittiness, body fluid, irritation, sense of humor, wit, bodily fluid, snappishness, toughness, witticism

2. 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, humor, wittiness, body fluid, mentality, sense of humor, witticism, bodily fluid, card, wag, wit

3. 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, liquid body substance, wit, sense of humour, bodily fluid, humor, wittiness, mood

4. liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humournoun

   the liquid parts of the body

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

5. humor, humournoun

   the quality of being funny

   "I fail to see the humor in it"

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

6. humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humourverb

   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, liquid body substance, wit, sense of humour, bodily fluid, humor, wittiness, mood

7. humor, humourverb

   put into a good mood

   Synonyms:
   humor

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1. • Body Substance
   • Gratify
   • Physiology
   • Quality

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1. List of paraphrases for "humour":

   humor, mood, humorous, comedy, joke, wit

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. humour

   Synonyms:
   Humor

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1. Chuck Palahniuk:

   Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humour left.

2. Tom Carter:

   Whilst this damage may have been perpetrated for humour or some other reason, the actions that have been taken are unacceptable, the Long Man of Wilmington is protected by law as a Scheduled Ancient Monument for its historical significance.

3. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:

   Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

4. Musician Peter Framptonalso:

   Rest in peace Cloris Leachman you will always inhabit my sense of humour, thank you.

5. Sir W Temple:

   In conversation humour is more than wit, easiness, more than knowledge; few desire to learn, or to think they need it; all desire to be pleased, or, if not, to be easy.