From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Humorist \Hu"mor*ist\, noun [Cf. F. humoriste.]
1. (Med.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors. [archaic]
2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life. --Addison.
3. 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 +PJC]
The reputation of wits and humorists. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way [syn: {humourist}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
HUMORIST, noun 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
Define.com is a registered nonprofit corporation dedicated solely to the global public interest and the advancement of humanity. It belongs to all of us who have a desire to promote electronic democracy, science, creativity, imagination, reason, critical thinking, peace, race and gender equality, civil rights, equal access to education, personal liberty, free speech, animal rights, compassionate and nonviolent parenting, social and economic justice, global monetary reform, Secular Humanism, cognitive liberty and a permanent cessation of The War on Drugs.
Let's see what we can do if we put our heads together.
0