Dictionary Entry
humor
humor is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses
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- 1noun
Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
- 2noun
A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.
- 3noun
State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.
- 4noun
Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.
- 5noun
That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.
- 6transitive verb
To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.
- 7transitive verb
To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.
- 8noun
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"
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- 9noun
the quality of being funny
"I fail to see the humor in it"
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- 10noun
the liquid parts of the body
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- 11noun
(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"
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- 12noun
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- 13noun
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"
- 14verb
put into a good mood
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