humor

n

1. comedy, funniness, facetiousness, drollery; wit, ready wit, wittiness, Attic wit, dry wit; gallows humor, black comedy; jocularity, waggishness, banter, raillery; badinage, persiflage, repartee, quip, wisecrack, sarcasm; irony, satire, burlesque, parody, caricature, travesty, ridicule; witticism, bon mot, gag, pleasantry, jest, jocosity, joke; Sl. chestnut, Sl. bromide, wheeze, Joe Millerism; pun, wordplay, play on words, spoonerism, malapropism; amphigory, nonsense, nonsense rhyme, doggerel, limerick; merriness, playfulness, good spirits, Inf. laughs; ridiculousness, ludicrousness; Sl. shenanigans, buffoonery, tomfoolery, horseplay; trick, prank, practical joke.

2. temper, mood, frame of mind; vein, spirit, heart, soul; temperament, disposition, nature, character, attitude; tendency, bent, inclination, leaning, propensity; stripe, cast, mold, set of one's jib.

3. whim, caprice, fancy, whimsy; fickleness, mercuriality, erraticism; quirk, crotchet, vagary, freak, kink; idiosyncrasy, characteristic, peculiarity, eccentricity, oddness, queerness; bee in one's bonnet, mania, monomania, obsession, fixation, Fr. idee fixe. fascination.

v

4. soothe, placate, appease, mollify, satisfy, gratify; please, content, gladden, delight, amuse, tickle; indulge, pamper, spoil, cosset, coddle, mollycoddle, baby.

5. adapt, accommodate, stretch a point, make excuses for, make provision for; give in, concede, yield, acquiesce, oblige, relent; permit, tolerate, suffer, allow.