humor

humor has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
• n.. A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.
• n.. 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.
• n.. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.
• n.. 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.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.
• n.. 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"
• n.. the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
• n.. the liquid parts of the body
• n.. (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"
• n.. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter