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

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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

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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.

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

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

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

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1. humor

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

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

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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

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1. humornoun

   Synonyms:
   moisture

2. humornoun

   Synonyms:
   cutaneous eruption

3. humornoun

   Synonyms:
   temper, disposition, bent, bias, vein, propensity, predilection, turn of mind, frame of mind

4. humornoun

   Synonyms:
   mood, fancy, whim, caprice, freak, vagary, crotchet, whimsey, maggot, WRINKLE

5. humornoun

   Synonyms:
   pleasantry, facetiousness, jocoseness, jocularity, kindly wit

6. humorverb

   Synonyms:
   indulge, gratify, give way to, consult the wishes of

7. humorverb

   Synonyms:
   favor, suit the nature of, meet the requirements of

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1. humornoun

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

2. humornoun

   Synonyms:
   caprices, vagaries, whims, fancies, whimsies

3. humorverb

   Synonyms:
   indulge, please, gratify, temporize

   Antonyms:
   discipline, deny, curb, mortify

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1. List of paraphrases for "humor":

   humour, humorous, mood, comedy

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How to use humor in a sentence?

1. Paul Roth:

   Leonard Nimoy showed a young, nerdy, bullied me that not only could science be important and valued, but it could literally save entire ships, planets, and galaxies of lives, as I grew up, he taught me that reason could be tempered with humor. That learned adults still had more to learn. That feminism and opposing prejudice was vital. And that there is no age too late to reinvent yourself.

2. Andy Levin:

   As he walked about the Capitol in a rumpled suit, almost always with a plain white shirt and pedestrian tie, carrying bulging files with the occasional paper flying away, Carl was the very picture of sober purpose and rectitude. In truth, he wasn’t unfun, in fact, he often pierced tense situations with self-deprecating humor, and he privately shared incisive observations about others with staff and colleagues.

3. Ellie Katz:

   WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

4. William Temple:

   The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

5. Vicki Lawrence:

   Oh God, she was so bawdy ! She was such a naughty girl, she had such a raunchy sense of humor.