humour
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(verb) put into a good mood |
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Synonyms: humor |
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Related Words: gratify, indulge, pander |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: humor, sense of humor, sense of humour |
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Related Words: fun, playfulness |
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(noun) the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it" |
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Synonyms: humor |
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Related Words: quality |
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(noun) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed (in ancient and medieval physiology) to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile" |
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Synonyms: humor |
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Related Words: black bile, blood, bodily fluid, body fluid, choler, liquid body substance, melancholy, phlegm, sputum, yellow bile |
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(noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter |
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Synonyms: humor, wit, witticism, wittiness |
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Related Words: bon mot, caricature, cartoon, caustic remark, content, fun, gag, imitation, impersonation, irony, jape, jest, jeu d'esprit, joke, laugh, message, play, repartee, ribaldry, sarcasm, satire, sketch, sport, subject matter, substance, wheeze, yak |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: humor, mood, temper |
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Related Words: amiability, feeling, good humor, good humour, good temper, ill humor, ill humour, sulk, sulkiness |
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