Humour in English dictionary

  • humour

    Meanings and definitions of "Humour"

    • (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.
    • (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
    • Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
    • One's state of mind or disposition; one's mood.
    • The quality in events, speech or writing which is seen as funny, or creates amusement, such as a joke, satire, parody, etc.
    • (transitive) To pacify by indulging.
    • noun
      (uncountable)
      The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.]
    • noun
      (uncountable)
      A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
    • noun
      (archaic or historical)
      Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
    • noun
      (medicine)
      Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      Moist vapour, moisture.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To pacify by indulging.
    • bodily fluid
    • mood
    • something funny
    • to pacify by indulging
    • Four fluids, namely blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm, associated with the four basic elements of nature, that were thought to permeate the body and influence its health.
    • The state of one's feelings or mind at a particular time.
    • The ability to laugh at things that are amusing; the ability to be funny.
    • The quality in something that makes it funny or amusing.
    • Any liquid portion of the body, such as blood, urine, semen, saliva.
    • noun
      a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
    • noun
      a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
    • noun
      (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
    • noun
      the liquid parts of the body
    • noun
      the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
    • noun
      the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
    • verb
      put into a good mood

    Synonyms of "Humour" in English dictionary

    substance, sense of humour, wittiness are the top synonyms of "Humour" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of Humour

    • humour ( third-person singular simple present humours, present participle humouring, simple past and past participle humoured)
    • humour ( plural  humours)
    • humour (usually uncountable, plural humours) (British)
    • humour (third-person singular simple present humours, present participle humouring, simple past and past participle humoured)
  • Humour

    Meanings and definitions of "Humour"

    • One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. Winamp genre ID # 100.

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