| humor | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness | a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter. |
| ~ subject matter, content, message, substance | what a communication that is about something is about. |
| ~ jeu d'esprit | a witty comment or writing. |
| ~ bon mot, mot | a clever remark. |
| ~ esprit de l'escalier | a witty remark that occurs to you too late. |
| ~ pungency, bite | wit having a sharp and caustic quality.; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire" |
| ~ caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn.; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own" |
| ~ repartee | adroitness and cleverness in reply. |
| ~ gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh | a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" |
| ~ caricature, impersonation, imitation | a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect. |
| ~ cartoon, sketch | a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine. |
| ~ fun, sport, play | verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously).; "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport" |
| ~ ribaldry | ribald humor. |
| ~ topper | an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before. |
| ~ libation | (facetious) a serving of an alcoholic beverage. |
| ~ roaster | a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment).; "the honoree gave his roasters as good as he got" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humour | 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" |
| ~ playfulness, fun | a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement.; "her playfulness surprised me"; "he was fun to be with" |
| n. (feeling) | 3. humor, humour, mood, 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" |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| ~ peeve | an annoyed or irritated mood. |
| ~ sulk, sulkiness | a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal.; "stayed home in a sulk" |
| ~ amiability, good humor, good humour, good temper | a cheerful and agreeable mood. |
| ~ ill humor, ill humour, distemper | an angry and disagreeable mood. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. humor, humour | the quality of being funny.; "I fail to see the humor in it" |
| ~ quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.; "the quality of mercy is not strained" |
| ~ comicality | the quality of being comical. |
| n. (body) | 5. humor, humour | (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" |
| ~ body substance | the substance of the body. |
| ~ physiology | the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms. |
| ~ antiquity | the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe. |
| ~ dark ages, middle ages | the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. |
| n. (body) | 6. bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance | the liquid parts of the body. |
| ~ body substance | the substance of the body. |
| ~ aqueous humor, aqueous humour | the limpid fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens. |
| ~ vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour | the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball. |
| ~ endolymph | the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear. |
| ~ perilymph | the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear. |
| ~ ecf, extracellular fluid | liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.; "the body normally has about 15 quarts of extracellular fluid" |
| ~ intracellular fluid | liquid contained inside the cell membranes (usually containing dissolved solutes). |
| ~ succus, juice | any of several liquids of the body.; "digestive juices" |
| ~ karyolymph | a clear liquid in the cell nucleus in which the nucleolus and chromatin and other structures are dispersed. |
| ~ milk | produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young. |
| ~ amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, waters | the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion.; "before a woman gives birth her waters break" |
| ~ blood | the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets.; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions" |
| ~ blood serum, serum | an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates. |
| ~ chyle | a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats. |
| ~ lymph | a thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle; is conveyed to the blood stream by lymphatic vessels. |
| ~ come, cum, ejaculate, semen, seminal fluid, seed | the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract. |
| ~ ink | dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods. |
| ~ secretion | a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell. |
| ~ black bile, melancholy | a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. |
| ~ yellow bile, choler | a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger. |
| ~ lochia | substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth. |
| ~ sanies, festering, ichor, purulence, pus, suppuration | a fluid product of inflammation. |
| ~ cerebrospinal fluid, spinal fluid | clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain; fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord. |
| v. (communication) | 7. humor, humour | put into a good mood. |
| ~ pander, gratify, indulge | yield (to); give satisfaction to. |
| witty | | |
| adj. | 1. witty | combining clever conception and facetious expression.; "his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent" |
| ~ humorous, humourous | full of or characterized by humor.; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" |
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