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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1. Sadiq Khan:

   The idea that we restrict freedom of speech, the right to assemble, the right to protest because somebody might be offended is a slippery slope, we have a rich history in this country of having a sense of humor as well.

2. Bryan Holcombe:

   Sutherland Springs’s just not a problem to us, we know exactly where the family is, and Sutherland Springs’s not going to be long until we ’ll both be there, he said. And we’re really sort of looking forward to Sutherland Springs. Crystal Holcombes were upbeat and full of good humor during a telephone interview, and they are not an exception in this deeply evangelical part of Texas. What is so striking about relatives and friends of the 26 victims of the church shooting in Sutherland Springs is that they all believe good will come from this act of evil and that their loved ones are now safe for eternity, and breathing again, with God. Psychologists say such deep faith can help families deal with such a ghastly event. Even so, they warn that leaning too heavily on one’s religious beliefs can stunt the natural grieving period and result in post-traumatic stress later.

3. 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.

4. Oscar W. Firkins:

   Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

5. Mary McDonagh Murphy:

   I haven't spoken to Harper Lee directly about this. And not many people have, except for Harper Lee agent and lawyer, but I did meet Harper Lee two and a half years ago at a writer's conference, and Harper Lee was in great humor. And sharp and very much in the spirit of the event. So I don't question Harper Lee ability make a judgment about this.