Dictionary
hu•mor
Pronunciation: (hyOO'mur or, often, yOO'-), [key]—
n.
1. a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement:
the humor of a situation.
2. the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical:
He is completely without humor.
3. an instance of being or attempting to be comical or amusing; something humorous:
The humor in his joke eluded the audience.
4. the faculty of expressing the amusing or comical:
The author's humor came across better in the book than in the movie.
5. comical writing or talk in general; comical books, skits, plays, etc.
6. humors,peculiar features; oddities; quirks:
humors of life.
7. mental disposition or temperament.
8. a temporary mood or frame of mind:
The boss is in a bad humor today.
9. a capricious or freakish inclination; whim or caprice; odd trait.
10. (in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution.
11. any animal or plant fluid, whether natural or morbid, as the blood or lymph.
12. out of humor, displeased; dissatisfied; cross:
The chef is feeling out of humor again and will have to be treated carefully.
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v.t.
1. to comply with the humor or mood of in order to soothe or make content or more agreeable:
to humor a child.
2. to adapt or accommodate oneself to.
Also, esp. Brit.,humour.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
