humor

[US]/ˈhju:mə/
[UK]/ˈhjumɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. humor, wit; mood
vt. indulge, accommodate; comply

Phrases & Collocations

sense of humor

good humor

humor is infectious

black humor

aqueous humor

gallows humor

ill humor

Example Sentences

I'm in no humor to argue.

could not see the humor of the situation.

a leavening of humor;

humor, an effective ingredient of a speech.

tried to inject a note of humor into the negotiations.

The humor of the Cabinet shifted after the scandal was exposed.

They describe their humor as suitable for the family, with nothing off-color.

a penchant for cornpone humor; cornpone political prose.

I'll do it when the humor takes me.

Much English humor consists of plays on words.

American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.

folksy humor; a folksy style that masked a keen business mind.

She employed an irreverent humor to salt her observation.

We had gone from good humor to bellicosity back to joviality in five hours.

My father did not swear.He was a man of honorand competence and humor, and he was the parent I sorely wanted to please.

They are :a playful curiosity,a capacity for dreams,a sense of humor to correct those dreams,and finally a certain waywardness and incalculability of behavior.......

It's you include your spark of life, your nattiness, your humors, your exultation, your turndown.

Synchysis scintillans is a degenerative condition of the eye resulting in liquified vitreous humor and the accumulation of cholesterol crystals within the vitreous.

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