Humor vs. Humour

Humornoun

alternative spelling of humour|from=American spelling

Humorverb

alternative spelling of humour|from=American spelling

Humornoun

Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

Humornoun

A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.

Humornoun

State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.

Humornoun

Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.

Humornoun

That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.

Humorverb

To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.

Humorverb

To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.

Humornoun

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

Humornoun

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

Humornoun

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

Humornoun

the quality of being funny;

Humornoun

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

Humornoun

the liquid parts of the body

Humorverb

put into a good mood

Humournoun

(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

Humournoun

(uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.

Humournoun

Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.

Humournoun

(medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

Humournoun

(obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.

Humourverb

(transitive) To pacify by indulging.

Humournoun

same as humor.

Humournoun

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

Humournoun

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

Humournoun

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

Humournoun

the liquid parts of the body

Humournoun

the quality of being funny;

Humournoun

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

Humourverb

put into a good mood

Humournoun

the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech

Humournoun

the ability to express humour or amuse other people

Humournoun

a mood or state of mind

Humournoun

an inclination or whim

Humournoun

each of the four chief fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile (choler), and black bile (melancholy)) that were thought to determine a person's physical and mental qualities by the relative proportions in which they were present.

Humourverb

comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be

Humourverb

adapt or accommodate oneself to (something)

Humour

Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, ), controlled human health and emotion.