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humour in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. the liquid parts of the body
    liquid body substance  bodily fluid  body fluid  humor  humour 
  2. the quality of being funny
    "I fail to see the humor in it"
    humor  humour 
  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"
    humor  humour  sense of humor  sense of humour 
  4. (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"
    humor  humour 
  5. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
    wit  humor  humour  witticism  wittiness 
  6. 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"
    temper  mood  humor  humour 
verb
  1. put into a good mood
    humor  humour 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University



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