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Antonyms for humor
ˈhyu mər; often ˈyu-hu·mor

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. humornoun

    : To pacify by indulging.

    I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

    Synonyms:
    comedy, wit, amusingness, comicality

  2. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    bodily fluid

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. humor

    An intellectual fancy is a mental image or picture founded upon slight or whimsical association or resemblance; a conceit has less of the picturesque and more of the theoretic than a fancy; a conceit is somewhat aside from the common laws of reasoning, as a fancy is lighter and more airy than the common mode of thought. A conceit or fancy may be wholly unfounded, while a conception always has, or is believed to have, some answering reality. (Compare REASON.) An intellectual fancy or conceit may be pleasing or amusing, but is never worth serious discussion; we speak of a mere fancy, a droll or odd conceit. An emotional or personal fancy is a capricious liking formed with slight reason and no exercise of judgment, and liable to fade as lightly as it was formed. In a broader sense, the fancy signifies the faculty by which fancies or mental images are formed, associated, or combined. Compare synonyms for DREAM; IDEA; IMAGINATION.

    Antonyms:
    actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

    Synonyms:
    belief, caprice, conceit, conception, desire, fancy, idea, image, imagination, inclination, liking, mood, predilection, supposition, vagary, whim

    Preposition:
    To have a fancy for or take a fancy to a person or thing.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. humor

    Antonyms:
    nature, personality, mind, will, purpose, seriousness

    Synonyms:
    disposition, temper, mood, caprice, jocoseness, pleasantry, frame, drollery, fun

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittinessnoun

    a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

    Synonyms:
    liquid body substance, temper, sense of humour, brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mood, brainpower, wittiness, body fluid, mentality, sense of humor, witticism, humour, bodily fluid, card, wag, wit

  2. humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humournoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    temper, body fluid, sense of humor, witticism, humour, liquid body substance, wit, sense of humour, bodily fluid, wittiness, mood

  3. temper, mood, humor, humournoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    liquid body substance, temper, modality, sense of humour, climate, irritability, surliness, biliousness, mode, mood, peevishness, pique, pettishness, wittiness, body fluid, irritation, sense of humor, wit, humour, bodily fluid, snappishness, toughness, witticism

  4. humor, humournoun

    the quality of being funny

    "I fail to see the humor in it"

    Synonyms:
    temper, body fluid, sense of humor, witticism, humour, liquid body substance, wit, sense of humour, bodily fluid, wittiness, mood

  5. humor, humournoun

    (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"

    Synonyms:
    temper, body fluid, sense of humor, witticism, humour, liquid body substance, wit, sense of humour, bodily fluid, wittiness, mood

  6. liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humourverb

    the liquid parts of the body

    Synonyms:
    temper, wittiness, sense of humor, witticism, sense of humour, humour, wit, body fluid, bodily fluid, liquid body substance, mood

  7. humor, humourverb

    put into a good mood

    Synonyms:
    humour

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    disposition, temper, mood, facetiousness, jocularity, waggery, pleasantry, wit, satire

  2. humornoun

    Synonyms:
    caprices, vagaries, whims, fancies, whimsies

  3. humorverb

    Antonyms:
    discipline, deny, curb, mortify

    Synonyms:
    indulge, please, gratify, temporize

How to use humor in a sentence?

  1. Bill Clinton:

    Hillary and I mourn the passing of John Dingell, one of the finest public servants in American history, for nearly 60 years, John represented the people of Michigan with honor, integrity, great good humor, and unequaled ability to get good legislation passed.

  2. Tom Marshburn:

    I can't thank you enough for your dedication to the safety of the station, the safety of your crew, your humor, your friendship and your dedication to the flight control teams around the world.

  3. Clive James:

    A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  4. Charlton Heston:

    Gregory Peck was one of those few great actors of generosity, humor, toughness and spirit. From our fight scene in The Big Country (1958) to his willingness to stand up for what he believed personally, Gregory Peck faced life's challenges with great vigor and courage.

  5. Pat Boone:

    God has a sense of humor. Why else would he invent the porcupine and the giraffe ? something can be devilishly funny, but this skit is diabolical. God has only one real enemy — Satan. Satan ridicules faith, and they’re taking Satan’s side. They’re also ridiculing me and the film, telling impressionableyoung people not to see it because it's ridiculous. Then they throw in that the lawyer is Jewish to make the Christian look even worse, but it’s just anti-Semitic.

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