Synonyms for humor
- noun
- American English
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Mood
mood, temper, spirit, vein, quality, disposition, spirits UK AU NZ, pet, frame of mind, grain, constitution, frame
2. Wit — the quality of being amusing, comical, funny
wit, satire, comedy, witticism, salt, pleasantry, wittiness, drollery, comicality, amusingness
3. Bodily fluid
Other
sense of humor, freak, fancy, caprice, maggot, crotchet, whim, jocularity, facetiousness, vagary, jocoseness
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.
- n. 2
A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.
- n. 3
Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
Related words
- Word family
- humorist humorous humorful humorless humorsome humid humidity
- Phrases
- ill humor good humor vitreous humor black humor dark humor sense of humor potty humor
- Other spellings
- humour UK
Forms
- Plural
- humors → moods, tempers, spirits, veins…
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The analogies with which wit plays are often superficial or artificial; humor deals with real analogies of an amusing or entertaining kind, or with traits of character that are seen to have a comical side as soon as brought to view.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- mood A celebratory mood prevails in the united Germany.
- temper There's no need to get so angry. Keep your temper.
- vein A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
- wit It's obvious he's a half-wit, just looking at him.
- satire Our world must be a satire of some other world.
By length
- 3 letters
- pet1, wit1
- 4 letters
- salt1, mood1, vein1, whim1
- 5 letters
- frame1, fancy2, grain1, freak1
- 6 letters
- spirit2, comedy3, temper2, satire3, maggot2, vagary3
- 7 letters
- quality3, spirits2, caprice2
- 8 letters
- moisture2, crotchet, drollery
- 9 letters
- witticism, wittiness
- 10 letters
- pleasantry3, jocularity, comicality, jocoseness
- 11 letters
- disposition4, amusingness
- 12 letters
- constitution4
- 13 letters
- facetiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fancy2 = 2 syllables).