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humor
has definitions from the field of biology
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[ noun ] a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)The letters of the common_soldiers are rich_in humor . Indeed , no richer humor is to be found in the whole of American literature than in the letters of the semi-literate men who wore the blue and the gray . Humor found many modes of expression . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings , he wrote on_the_one_hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on_the_other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble , Arkansas , where no one had ever seen a piano ; and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor , `` The_Big_Bear_of_Arkansas '' , in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature . |
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[ noun ] the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
Synonyms Examples "she didn't appreciate my humor" "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)The gruesome humor of the Nazis was not forgotten - the gas_chamber with a sign on it with the name of a Jewish foundation and bearing a copper Star_of_David - nor the gratuitous sadism of SS officers . (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)The letters of the common_soldiers are rich_in humor . Indeed , no richer humor is to be found in the whole of American literature than in the letters of the semi-literate men who wore the blue and the gray . (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)But to me Beckett 's writing had seemed permeated with love for human_beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism . (Vina Delmar, The Big Family....)Naval procedure , he thought , had its moments of grim humor . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Examples "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time" "he was in a bad humor" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)But having lived with the disc for some time now , I find the performance less exciting than either Schnabel 's or Fleisher 's ( whose superb performance with the Budapest_Quartet has still to be recorded ) and a good_deal less filled with humor than Curzon 's . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)So they parted when she was in an impatient humor . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)I called the other afternoon on my old friend , Graves_Moreland , the Anglo-American literary critic - his mother was_born in Ohio - who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson_Downs , raising_hell and peacocks , the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old_man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing , such_as human stature , hope , and humor . `` I have come to talk with you about the future of humor and comedy '' , I told him , at which he started slightly , and_then made us each a stiff drink , with a trembling hand . `` I seem to remember '' , he said , `` that in an interview ten years ago you gave humor and comedy five years to live . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (biology) the liquid parts of the body
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[ noun ] (biology) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed (in ancient and medieval physiology) to determine your emotional and physical state
Synonyms Examples "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile" |
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