Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, historical
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One who studies or portrays the humours of people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: humourist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: entertainer
Narrower terms: parodist, lampooner, punster, satirist, ironist, ridiculer, wag, wit, card, Benchley, Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley, Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain, Lardner, Ring Lardner, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Leacock, Stephen Leacock, Stephen Butler Leacock, Lear, Edward Lear, Marquis, Don Marquis, Donald Robert Perry Marquis, Rogers, Will Rogers, William Penn Adair Rogers, Shaw, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings, Thurber, James Thurber, James Grover Thurber
History
Etymology tree English humor Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English humorist From humor + -ist.
Across languages
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
