humorist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hu=mor=ist

CIDE DICTIONARY

humorist, n. [Cf. F. humoriste.].

•  One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.  [1913 Webster]
•  One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.  [1913 Webster]

  "He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life."  [1913 Webster]
•  One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll; especially, one who writes or tells jokes as a profession.  [1913 Webster]

  "The reputation of wits and humorists."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

humorist, n.
1 a facetious person.
2 a humorous talker, actor, or writer.

Derivative

humoristic adj.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

humorist

n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind
See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined --
Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray,
His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day.
He thinks, admitted to an equal sty,
A graceful hog would bear his company.
Alexander Poke

THESAURUS

humorist

advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, banana, banterer, belletrist, bibliographer, buffoon, burlesquer, card, caricaturist, clown, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, comedian, comic, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, cutup, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, droll, encyclopedist, epigrammatist, essayist, free lance, free-lance writer, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, ghost, ghostwriter, inditer, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, kidder, lampooner, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, madcap, magazine writer, man of letters, merry-andrew, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, parodist, penwoman, poet, prankster, prose writer, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, reviewer, satirist, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, word painter, wordsmith, writer, zany

ROGET THESAURUS

humorist

Humorist

N humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster, bel esprit, life of the party, wit-snapper, wit-cracker, wit- worm, joker, jester, Joe Miller, drole de corps, gaillard, spark, bon diable, practical joker, buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown, wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley, motley fool, pantaloon, gypsy, jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy, wiseacre, wise guy, smartass, fool, zany, madcap, pickle-herring, witling, caricaturist, grimacier, persifleur.