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Associations to the word «Humor»

Wiktionary

HUMOR, noun. American spelling spelling of humour
HUMOR, verb. American spelling spelling of humour

Dictionary definition

HUMOR, noun. A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.
HUMOR, noun. 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, noun. 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".
HUMOR, noun. The quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it".
HUMOR, noun. (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, noun. The liquid parts of the body.
HUMOR, verb. Put into a good mood.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats