Synonyms of humors

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noun

plural of humor

1

as in comedies

humorous entertainment

a screenwriter best known for lowbrow humor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• comedies
• satires
• farces
• slapsticks
• parodies
• burlesques
• wits
• fun
• banters
• high comedies
• fooleries
• improvs
• shenanigans
• low comedies
• drolleries
• knockabouts
• stand-ups
• persiflages
• monkeyshines
• horseplays

2

as in spirits

a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion

the prospect of going out to dinner put her in a good humor all day

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spirits
• moods
• modes
• tempers
• feathers
• feelings
• passions
• attitudes
• emotions
• cheers
• frames of mind
• angles
• perspectives
• viewpoints
• opinions
• beliefs
• sentiments
• standpoints
• minds
• veins
• outlooks
• temperaments
• hearts
• convictions
• judgments
• expressions
• sensibilities
• strains
• identities
• tones
• sensitivities
• personalities
• mind-sets
• slants
• dispositions
• characters
• individualities
• self-identities
• makeups
• mettles
• selfhoods

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as in whims

a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action

she was seized by a sudden humor to contact an old college friend that she hadn't seen in ages

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whims
• notions
• whimsies
• caprices
• vagaries
• thoughts
• megrims
• fancies
• maggots
• bees
• pictures
• vagrancies
• impressions
• fantasies
• kinks
• cranks
• freaks
• whimsicalities
• bees in one's bonnet
• images
• conceits
• conceptions
• concepts
• impetuosities
• inspirations
• brainstorms
• mind's eyes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of humor

as in indulges

to give in to (a desire)

humored her grandfather by listening to his war stories for the hundredth time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• indulges
• pleases
• gratifies
• caters (to)
• delights
• spoils
• revels
• satisfies
• luxuriates
• basks
• pampers
• pleasures
• wallows
• coddles
• satiates
• mollycoddles
• sates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• inhibits
• checks
• restrains
• constrains
• curbs
• stifles
• bridles

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of humors

Noun

European colonists commonly believed that the balance of humors – yellow and black biles, blood and phlegm – circulating through one’s body was important for health. — Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

However, Khatima also maintained that the four humors played a role in determining the plague’s course. — Literary Hub, 27 May 2026

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates divided the lives of men into only four stages, a number that mirrored the four humors and the four elements. — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026

Essentially, the genre someone gravitates towards can quietly reveal personality traits like our humors, values, and emotional wiring—the kind of clues that aren’t always captured in a dating app profile. — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 22 Oct. 2025

There are alignments of anemia with some of the early modern symptoms of green sickness—though very few people today are likely to think anemia is caused by a blockage of bodily humors curable by intercourse. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 27 Sep. 2025

And there’s a kinship between modern medicine’s aim to ascribe psychiatric disorders to a handful of chemicals in our brains and the medical catchall of the four-humors framework of centuries past. — Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025