Sick Definition–adjective | 1. | afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing. | | 2. | affected with nausea; inclined to vomit. | | 3. | deeply affected with some unpleasant feeling, as of sorrow, disgust, or boredom: sick at heart; to be sick of parties. | | 4. | mentally, morally, or emotionally deranged, corrupt, or unsound: a sick mind; wild statements that made him seem sick. | | 5. | characteristic of a sick mind: sick fancies. | | 6. | dwelling on or obsessed with that which is gruesome, sadistic, ghoulish, or the like; morbid: a sick comedian; sick jokes. | | 7. | of, pertaining to, or for use during sickness: He applied for sick benefits. | | 8. | accompanied by or suggestive of sickness; sickly: a sick pallor; the sick smell of disinfectant in the corridors.
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Humor Definition–noun | 1. | a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation. | | 2. | the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical: He is completely without humor. | | 3. | an instance of being or attempting to be comical or amusing; something humorous: The humor in his joke eluded the audience. | | 4. | the faculty of expressing the amusing or comical: The author's humor came across better in the book than in the movie. | | 5. | comical writing or talk in general; comical books, skits, plays, etc. | | 6. | humors, peculiar features; oddities; quirks: humors of life. | | 7. | mental disposition or temperament. | | 8. | a temporary mood or frame of mind: The boss is in a bad humor today. | | 9. | a capricious or freakish inclination; whim or caprice; odd trait. | | 10. | (in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution. | | 11. | any animal or plant fluid, whether natural or morbid, as the blood or lymph. | –verb (used with object) | 12. | to comply with the humor or mood of in order to soothe or make content or more agreeable: to humor a child. | | 13. | to adapt or accommodate oneself to. | —Idiom | 14. | out of humor, displeased; dissatisfied; cross: The chef is feeling
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