humour

Noun

• the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
  • she didn't appreciate my humor
    
  • you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor
    

• the quality of being funny
  • I fail to see the humor in it
    

• the liquid parts of the body

• (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
  • the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile
    

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

• a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
  • whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time
    
  • he was in a bad humor
    

Verb

• put into a good mood

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  humor , sense of humor , sense of humour , liquid body substance , bodily fluid , body fluid , wit , witticism , wittiness , temper , mood