Humorist

Quick meaning: Humorist is a noun meaning (medicine, now rare, historical) Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.

Meaning

(medicine, now rare, historical) Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.

More Meanings

1. A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance.
2. One who studies or portrays the humours of people.
3. (obsolete) Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric.

Example Sentences

I called on him and found him a contemporary of Beauclerk and Langton at Trinity College, Oxford, and a man of reading and animation, but a kind of humourist.

Art Buchwald, who satirized the follies of the rich, the famous and the powerful for half a century as the most widely read newspaper humorist of his time, died Wednesday night in Washington.

She and the duke used to rally me upon my fondness for lord W—m, who was a sort of an humourist, and apt to be in a pet, in which case he would leave the company, and go to bed by seven o'clock in the evening.

But when it comes to conveying what made these people funny, what impact they had in their day and, especially, what debt they are owed by present-day humorists, Johnson doesn’t put much meat on the old bones.

Word Forms

• humorists
• humourist

Synonyms for humorist

Depending on context, synonyms include humourist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include humourist, comic, comedian, rogers, humoralism, humorism.

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