humour
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humour or humor (ˈhjuːmə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the quality of being funny |
| 2. | Also called: sense of humour the ability to appreciate or express that which is humorous |
| 3. | situations, speech, or writings that are thought to be humorous |
| 4. | a. a state of mind; temper; mood |
| b. (in combination): ill humour; good humour | |
| 5. | temperament or disposition |
| 6. | a caprice or whim |
| 7. | any of various fluids in the body, esp the aqueous humour and vitreous humour |
| 8. | archaic Also called: cardinal humour any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition |
| 9. | out of humour in a bad mood |
| —vb | |
| 10. | to attempt to gratify; indulge: he humoured the boy's whims |
| 11. | to adapt oneself to: to humour someone's fantasies |
| [C14: from Latin humor liquid; related to Latin ūmēre to be wet, Old Norse vökr moist, Greek hugros wet] | |
| humor or humor | |
| —n | |
| —vb | |
| [C14: from Latin humor liquid; related to Latin ūmēre to be wet, Old Norse vökr moist, Greek hugros wet] | |
| 'humourful or humor | |
| —adj | |
| 'humorful or humor | |
| —adj | |
| 'humourless or humor | |
| —adj | |
| 'humorless or humor | |
| —adj | |
| 'humourlessness or humor | |
| —n | |
| 'humorlessness or humor | |
| —n | |
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Humour
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
The humour of these poems soon gave way, however, to the more heroic and tragic aspects of the war.
He explained that being deliberately offensive was part of his sense of humour.
The term melancholy as used in the scientific literature of the time referred to a cold dry humour normally present in the body.
Humour does not get much blacker than laughter in a collapsed coal mine.
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