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English noun: humour | |||
| 1. | humour (feeling) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | ||
| Samples | Whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time. He was in a bad humor. | ||
| Synonyms | humor, mood, temper | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | amiability, distemper, good humor, good humour, good temper, ill humor, ill humour, peeve, sulk, sulkiness | ||
| 2. | humour (communication) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | ||
| Synonyms | humor, wit, witticism, wittiness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | content, message, subject matter, substance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bite, bon mot, caricature, cartoon, caustic remark, esprit de l'escalier, fun, gag, imitation, impersonation, irony, jape, jest, jeu d'esprit, joke, laugh, mot, play, pungency, repartee, ribaldry, sarcasm, satire, sketch, sport, topper | ||
| Domain usage members | libation, roaster | ||
| 3. | humour (body) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | ||
| Samples | The humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile. | ||
| Synonyms | humor | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | body substance | ||
| Domain category | antiquity, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, physiology | ||
| 4. | humour (body) the liquid parts of the body | ||
| Synonyms | bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, liquid body substance | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | body substance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, aqueous humor, aqueous humour, black bile, blood, blood serum, cerebrospinal fluid, choler, chyle, come, cum, ECF, ejaculate, endolymph, extracellular fluid, festering, ichor, ink, intracellular fluid, juice, karyolymph, lochia, lymph, melancholy, milk, perilymph, purulence, pus, sanies, secretion, seed, semen, seminal fluid, serum, spinal fluid, succus, suppuration, vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour, waters, yellow bile | ||
| 5. | humour (attribute) the quality of being funny | ||
| Samples | I fail to see the humor in it. | ||
| Synonyms | humor | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | comicality | ||
| 6. | humour (attribute) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous | ||
| Samples | She didn't appreciate my humor. You can't survive in the army without a sense of humor. | ||
| Synonyms | humor, sense of humor, sense of humour | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fun, playfulness | ||
English verb: humour | |||
| 1. | humour (communication) put into a good mood | ||
| Synonyms | humor | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | gratify, indulge, pander | ||
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