humor

Definition

  • noun: a funny or amusing quality
  • noun: a normal functioning bodily semifluid or fluid (as the blood or lymph)
  • verb: to try to please or satisfy (someone) by doing what is wanted
  • verb: to soothe or content by indulgence
  • synonyms: whim, fancy, pleasantry

Examples

  • He answered the reporter's questions with charm and 'good humor'. [=in a friendly and cheerful way]

  • She has a great 'sense of humor'. [=she says funny things and can see the funny side of things]

  • Everyone likes the gentle 'humor' of his stories of family life.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) .. WeII, aIive, anyway. .. We may have Iost the war... .. ...but heaven knows we haven't Iost our sense of humor. .. No, not even when we Iost a Iung... .. ...a spIeen... .. (..)
    1999 Wild Wild West
  • (..) .. McGrath. .. Something's in his pocket. It's too fuzzy to see. .. Mortification of the aqueous humor's Ied to a Ioss-- .. GIasses. .. ''Friends of the South, come to a costume baII, ApriI , haIf past . .. (..)
    1999 Wild Wild West