ˈhjuːmɚ hjuː.mə(ɹ) ˈhjuːmɚ hjuː.mə(ɹ) ˈhjuː.mə(ɹ) ˈhjuːmɚ ˈhjuː.mə(ɹ) ˈhjuːmɚ ˈtɛmpə ˈtɛmpɚ ˈwɪ.tɪ.sɪz.əm put into a good mood 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