Dictionary Check: humor

"humor" is a valid word!

Scrabble 10 points
Words with Friends 11 points

Definition

noun

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

noun

the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous

Example: "she didn't appreciate my humor"
noun

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

Example: "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"
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noun

the quality of being funny

Example: "I fail to see the humor in it"
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noun

(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state

Example: "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
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noun

the liquid parts of the body

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