humour

humour: (BrE) (AmE humor) noun

1 amusing quality/ability to find things funny

ADJECTIVE

▪ wry

▪ With wry humour, they laugh at their misfortunes.

▪ ironic, tongue-in-cheek

▪ self-deprecating

▪ deadpan, dry

▪ gentle, subtle

▪ sly

▪ irreverent

▪ black, dark, gallows, grim

▪ caustic, sardonic

▪ slapstick, visual

▪ unintentional

▪ schoolboy (BrE)

▪ His colleagues soon got fed up with his schoolboy humour.

▪ lavatorial, toilet (both esp. BrE)

▪ gross-out (informal, esp. AmE)

▪ This movie takes crude gross-out humour to a new low.

… OF HUMOUR/HUMOR

▪ touch

▪ Her speech was serious, but not without the occasional touch of humour.

VERB + HUMOUR/HUMOR

▪ be full of, contain

▪ The stories are full of humour.

▪ use

▪ The movie uses humour to make its points.

▪ appreciate, see

▪ The man who lost his shoes failed to see the humour of the situation.

PHRASES

▪ a brand of humour

▪ a television sitcom with its own peculiar brand of humour

▪ sense of humour

▪ to have a dry/good/great/warped/weird/wicked sense of humour

2 mood

ADJECTIVE

▪ good

▪ Her good humour was restored by the excellent meal.

PHRASES

▪ in (a) good humour

▪ The remarks were made in good humour.

▪ He was obviously in a good humour this evening.

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HUMOUR — Le concept d’humour, dont le champ d’application s’est considérablement élargi depuis son utilisation dans la littérature anglaise des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, n’a pas pour autant subi de multiples variations sémantiques ni cessé de se rattacher… … Encyclopédie Universelle
humour — (US humor) ► NOUN 1) the quality of being amusing or comic. 2) a state of mind: her good humour vanished. 3) (also cardinal humour) historical each of four fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy),… … English terms dictionary
humour — chiefly Brit var of HUMOR * * * n. a body fluid. See aqueous humour, vitreous humour … Medical dictionary
humour — n. same as {humor}. [Chiefly Brit.] [PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
humour — / hju:mə/, it. / jumor/ s. ingl. [voce di origine normanna, propr. umore ], usato in ital. al masch. [capacità di cogliere gli aspetti comici o paradossali della vita: il caratteristico h. degli inglesi ] ▶◀ arguzia, ironia, sagacia, spirito,… … Enciclopedia Italiana
humour — chiefly British English spelling of HUMOR (Cf. humor); see OR (Cf. or). Related: Humourous; humourist … Etymology dictionary
humour — /ˈjumor, ingl. ˈhjuːməu(r)/ [ant. fr. (h)umor, dal lat. (h)umōre(m) «umore»] s. m. inv. senso dell umorismo, spirito □ umorismo, comicità … Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione
humour — is spelt our in BrE and humor in AmE, and the same distinction applies to the derivative humourless / humorless. Humorous and humorist, however, are spelt the same way in both varieties … Modern English usage
humour — [hyo͞o′mər] n., vt. Brit. sp. of HUMOR … English World dictionary
Humour — Sourire peut impliquer un sens d humour et une émotion d amusement, comme le démontre le personnage de Falstaff d Eduard von Grützner. L humour, au sens large, est une forme d esprit railleuse « qui s attache à souligner le caractère … Wikipédia en Français
humour — /hyooh meuhr/, n., v.t., Chiefly Brit. humor. Usage. See or1. * * * I (Latin; fluid ) In early Western physiological theory, one of the four body fluids thought to determine a person s temperament and features. As hypothesized by Galen, the four… … Universalium

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