Word Meanings - CROSSLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

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• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• HUMOROUSLY
  1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily.
• HUMORSOMENESS
  Quality of being humorsome.
• HUMORIST
  One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors. 2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways. He . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life. Addison. 3. One who displays
• HUMORSOMELY
  Pleasantly; humorously.
• PEEVISHLY
  In a peevish manner. Shak.
• ATHWART
  Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance. -- Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; --
• HUMORAL
  Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever. Humoral pathology , the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.
• HUMORALISM
  The state or quality of being humoral.
• HUMOROUS
  1. Moist; humid; watery. All founts wells, all deeps humorous. Chapman. 2. Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical. Hawthorne. Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind. Dryden. 3. Full of humor; jocular;
• HUMORISTIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.
• ADVERSELY
  In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.
• HUMORISM
  The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism. Dunglison. 2. The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness. Coleridge.
• HUMORLESS
  Destitute of humor.
• HUMORIZE
  To humor. Marston.
• HUMOROUSNESS
  1. Moodiness; capriciousness. 2. Facetiousness; jocularity.
• HUMORALIST
  One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.
• HUMORSOME
  1. Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke. 2. Jocose; witty; humorous. Swift.
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• DISHUMOR
  Ill humor.
• GOOD-HUMOREDLY
  With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner.