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Verb
/ˈ(h)yo͞omər/,
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humours, plural; humors, plural;
  1. Comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be
    • - she was always humoring him to prevent trouble
  2. Adapt or accommodate oneself to (something)

Noun
  1. The quality of being amusing or comic, esp. as expressed in literature or speech
    • - his tales are full of humor
  2. The ability to express humor or make other people laugh
    • - their inimitable brand of humor
  3. A mood or state of mind
    • - her good humor vanished
    • - the clash hadn't improved his humor
  4. An inclination or whim

  5. Each of the four chief fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile [choler], and black bile [melancholy]) that were thought to determine a person's physical and mental qualities by the relative proportions in which they were present

  1. put into a good mood
  2. wit: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
  3. 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"
  4. temper: 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"
  5. the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
  6. (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"
  7. Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. ...
  8. (Humors) Humorism, or humoralism, was a theory of the makeup and workings of the human body adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers. ...
  9. (Humors (Ayurveda)) Ayurveda (आयुर्वेद; Āyurveda, the "science of life") Ayurvedic medicine is a system of traditional medicine native to the Indian subcontinentChopra, p. 75 and practiced in other parts of the world as a form of alternative medicine. ...
  10. The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.]; Four fluids (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. [from the 15th c. ...
  11. (humorous) Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny; Showing humor; witty, jocular; Damp or watery; Capricious; whimsical; moody; subject to bodily humors
  12. (Humorous) "Full of grotesque or odd images" in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1773).
  13. (Humorous) A matchcover category usually showing a humorous slogan or design, rather than humor related to an advertisement. Sets include the 1958 Metalart Sets, Nebbishes Set, Monogram of California Prison Set, Chicago Match Space Set, Tip 'n Twinkle Sets, and others.
  14. (humorous) expressions are intended to be funny, for example ankle-biter, lurgy.
  15. (humorous) weight; heaviness:she was putting on the avoirdupois like nobody’s business
  16. (HUMORS) Psychological terms used by the Renaissance writers to describe the temperaments of a human being. The four basic humors were the choleric (bile), the sanguine (blood), the phlegmatic (phlegm), and the melancholy (black bile). ...
  17. (Humors) In medieval European medical thought, a fluid or juice, applied especially the four fluids — blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile) — which were thought to determine a person’s health and temperament. This theory derived from classical sources. ...
  18. (humors) Four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, red or yellow bile, and black bile) believed to produce the sanguinary, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic temperaments (GP 421; Knight 1375; Squire 352; Franklin 782; Nun's Priest 2924, 2957; Parson 830, 915).
  19. (humors) The belief that personality is related to a balance of bodily fluids (blood, bile, etc.).
  20. Comical or funny artwork meant to provoke laughter and amusement, whether satirical, political or just plain whimsical.
  21. Fables are a didactic mode of literature; that is their primary purpose is to instruct or guide, not just to entertain. However, fables also afford the reader an opportunity to laugh at human folly especially when they model examples of behaviors to be avoided rather than emulated.
  22. Not everyone is funny, but humor can be instilled in someone through practice, and the ability to loosen up and see the different side of things. ...
  23. HYOOM-er/ Any fluid serving a function within the body.
  24. "A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala Vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation... ...
  25. the quality that provokes laughter or amusement.  Writers create humor through exaggeration, sarcasm, amusing descriptions, irony, and witty dialogue.