What Does Something Mean Funny Joke
hu·mour
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humour
(ˈhjuːmə) orhumor
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. (Physiology) any of various fluids in the body, esp the aqueous humour and vitreous humour
8. (Physiology) 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 (tr)
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]
ˈhumourful, ˈhumorful adj
ˈhumourless, ˈhumorless adj
ˈhumourlessness, ˈhumorlessness n
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hu•mor
(ˈhyu mər; often ˈyu-)n.
1. a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement.
2. the faculty of perceiving and expressing or appreciating what is amusing or comical: a writer with humor and zest.
3. an instance of being or attempting to be comical or amusing; something humorous.
4. comical writing or talk in general; comical books, skits, plays, etc.
5. mental disposition or temperament.
6. a temporary mood or frame of mind: in a sulky humor today.
7. a capricious or freakish inclination; whim or caprice; odd trait.
8. any animal or plant fluid, esp. one of the body fluids once regarded as determining a person's constitution: blood, phlegm, black bile, or yellow bile.
v.t.9. to comply with the humor or mood of in order to soothe, cheer up, etc.: to humor a child.
10. to adapt or accommodate oneself to: I'll humor your whim for now.
Idioms:out of humor, dissatisfied; cross.
Also, esp. Brit., humour.[1300–50; Middle English (h)umour < Anglo-French < Latin (h)ūmor moisture, bodily fluid =(h)ūm(ēre) to be wet (compare humid) + -ōr- -or1]
hu′mor•less, adj.
hu′mor•less•ly, adv.
hu′mor•less•ness, n.
syn: humor, wit refer to an ability to perceive and express a sense of the clever or amusing. humor consists principally in the recognition and expression of incongruities or peculiarities present in a situation or character. It is frequently used to illustrate some fundamental absurdity in human nature or conduct, and is generally thought of as a kindly trait: a genial and mellow type of humor. wit is a purely intellectual, often spontaneous, manifestation of cleverness and quickness in discovering analogies between things really unlike, and expressing them in brief, diverting, and often sharp observations: biting wit.
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humour
Past participle: humoured
Gerund: humouring
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Thesaurus Antonyms Related Words Synonyms Legend:
| Noun | 1. |  humour - 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"mood, temper, humor feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" peeve - an annoyed or irritated mood sulk, sulkiness - a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal; "stayed home in a sulk" amiability, good humor, good humour, good temper - a cheerful and agreeable mood ill humor, ill humour, distemper - an angry and disagreeable mood |
| 2. |  humour - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughterhumor, wit, witticism, wittiness subject matter, content, message, substance - what a communication that is about something is about jeu d'esprit - a witty comment or writing bon mot, mot - a clever remark esprit de l'escalier - a witty remark that occurs to you too late pungency, bite - wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire" caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire - witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift repartee - adroitness and cleverness in reply gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh - a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" caricature, impersonation, imitation - a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect cartoon, sketch - a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine fun, sport, play - verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport" ribaldry - ribald humor topper - an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before libation - (facetious) a serving of an alcoholic beverage roaster - a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment); "the honoree gave his roasters as good as he got" | |
| 3. | humour - (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" humor body substance - the substance of the body physiology - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms antiquity - the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe Dark Ages, Middle Ages - the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance | |
| 4. | humour - the liquid parts of the body bodily fluid, body fluid, liquid body substance, humor body substance - the substance of the body aqueous humor, aqueous humour - the limpid fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens vitreous body, vitreous humor, vitreous humour - the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball endolymph - the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear perilymph - the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear ECF, extracellular fluid - liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid; "the body normally has about 15 quarts of extracellular fluid" intracellular fluid - liquid contained inside the cell membranes (usually containing dissolved solutes) succus, juice - any of several liquids of the body; "digestive juices" karyolymph - a clear liquid in the cell nucleus in which the nucleolus and chromatin and other structures are dispersed milk - produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, waters - the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion; "before a woman gives birth her waters break" blood - the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions" blood serum, serum - an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates chyle - a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats lymph - a thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle; is conveyed to the blood stream by lymphatic vessels come, seminal fluid, seed - the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract ink - dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods secretion - a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell black bile, melancholy - a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy yellow bile, choler - a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger lochia - substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth sanies, suppuration, festering, ichor, purulence, pus - a fluid product of inflammation cerebrospinal fluid, spinal fluid - clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain; fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord | |
| 5. | humour - the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it" humor quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare comicality - the quality of being comical | |
| 6. | humour - 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" sense of humor, sense of humour, humor playfulness, fun - a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement; "her playfulness surprised me"; "he was fun to be with" | |
| Verb | 1. | humour - put into a good mood humor pander, gratify, indulge - yield (to); give satisfaction to |
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humour
noun
1. comedy, funniness, fun, amusement, funny side, jocularity, facetiousness, ludicrousness, drollery, comical aspect She couldn't ignore the humour of the situation.
comedy grief, gravity, sadness, sorrow, seriousness, melancholy, sobriety, solemnity
3. joking, jokes, comedy, wit, gags (informal), farce, jesting, jests, wisecracks (informal), witticisms, wittiness The film has lots of adult humour.
verb
1. indulge, accommodate, go along with, spoil, flatter, pamper, gratify, pander to, mollify, cosset, fawn on Most of the time he humoured her for an easy life.
indulge oppose, stand up to, aggravate
Quotations
"Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain" [Edward De Bono]
"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding" [Agnes Repplier In Pursuit of Laughter]
"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven" [Mark Twain Following the Equator]
"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor" [H.L. Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy]
"There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them" [Robert Benchley What Does It Mean?]
Bodily humours
black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm
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Translations
المُضْحِك في الأمْردُعَابَةٌمِزاج مَرِح، ظَرافه يُلاطِف، يُسايِر
угаждам
humor směšnost vyhovět
humor føje
huumori
humor
humor komikum testnedv vicc kedv
fyndni skopskyn, kímnigáfa sÿna undanlátssemi
ユーモア
유머
humoras humoristas juokingumas taikytis
humors izdabāt izpatikt noskaņojums
humor
humor
อารมณ์ขัน
gülünçlükmizahmizah yeteneği nazını çekmek suyuna gitmek
sự hài hước
humour
humor (US) [ˈhjuːməʳ]
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
humour
[ˈhjuːmər] humor (US)
n
(also sense of humour) → sens m de l'humour
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
humour
, (US) humor
n
(old Med) → Körpersaft m
vt to humour somebody → jdm seinen Willen lassen or tun; do it just to humour him → tus doch, damit er seinen Willen hat
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
humour
humor (Am) [ˈhjuːməʳ]
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
humour
(American) humor (ˈhjuːmə) noun1. the ability to amuse people; quickness to spot a joke. He has a great sense of humour. humor مِزاج مَرِح، ظَرافه хумор humor humor der Humor humor χιούμορ humor naljasoon شوخ طبعی huumori humour הוּמוֹר हास्यवृत्ति raspoloženje, humor humor kemampuan menyenangkan skopskyn, kímnigáfa umorismo ユーモア 유머, 익살 humoras humors rasa lucu humor humor humor طبیعی شوخی humor umor чувство юмора humor humor humor humor, skämtlynne อารมณ์ขัน mizah yeteneği 幽默 гумор مزاح biết đùa 幽默
2. the quality of being amusing. the humour of the situation. humor المُضْحِك في الأمْر смешна страна graça směšnost die Komik humor κωμικότητα comicidad, gracia koomika با مزه گی huvittavuus humour חוּש הוּמוֹר स्वभाव, मनोदशा zabava (zabavna situacija) komikum segi humor fyndni comicità おかしみ 유머를 이해하는 능력 juokingumas, komiškumas humors; noskaņojums humor; kelucuan het grappige humor komizm له خوند سره cómico comic юмор smiešnosť smešnost komika det komiska ความตลกขบขัน gülünçlük 有趣 гумор شگفتگی sự hài hước 诙谐，幽默感
verbto please (someone) by agreeing with him or doing as he wishes. There is no point in telling him he is wrong – just humour him instead. sy/haar sin gee يُلاطِف، يُسايِر угаждам fazer a vontade vyhovět jemandem seinen Willen lassen føje πηγαίνω με τα νερά κπ. complacer, consentir (kellegi) tujusid täitma دل كسي را بدست آوردن olla jollekulle mieliksi ne pas contrarier לְרַצוֹת popuštati, ugoditi alkalmazkodik vkihez menyenangkan sÿna undanlátssemi compiacere, assecondare 調子を合わせる 비위를 맞추다 pataikauti, taikytis izdabāt; izpatikt melayan kerenah in een goed humeur brengen snakke noen etter munnen, føye udobruchać د چا زړه لاسته راوړل fazer a vontade a face pe plac ублажать vyhovieť sprijazniti se (s kom), pokaditi (komu) ugoditi blidka, göra ngn till viljes ประจบ suyuna gitmek, nazını çekmek 遷就 потурати кому کسی کو خوش کرنے کے لیے جھوٹا دکھاوا làm vừa lòng 迁就
ˈhumorist nouna person who writes or tells amusing stories, jokes etc. humoris, grapmaker كاتِب هَزْلي хуморист humorista humorista der/die Humorist/in humorist ευθυμογράφος, κωμικός humorista humorist بذله گو humoristi humoriste מַצחִיקַן विनोदी, मजाकिया humorist humorista humoris gamansamur maður, grínisti umorista ユーモア作家 유머 작가 humoristas humorists penulis satira lucu humorist humorist humorysta ټوکمار humorista umorist юморист humorista, komik humorist humorista humorist, skämtare นักเล่าเรื่องตลก mizah yazarı 幽默作家 гуморист; жартівник ظریف، مسخرا người hài hước 幽默作家
ˈhumorous adjective ˈhumorously adverbgrappenderwys بِمَرَح، بِفُكاهَه хумористично humoristicamente humorně heiter morsomt αστεία, χιουμοριστικά con humor lõbusalt بطور شوخي آميز humoristisesti avec humour בְּהוּמוֹר विनोद से šaljivo humorosan dengan humor skemmtilega con umorismo こっけいに 익살맞게 juokingai smieklīgi dengan lucu humoristisch morsomt, for spøk humorystycznie د شوخی په ډول humoristicamente cu umor забавно; с юмором humorne šaljivo humoristično humoristiskt อย่างติดตลก mizah yollu, nükteli bir şekilde 幽默風趣地 комічно ظرافت کے ساتھ một cách hài hước 幽默地
ˈhumorousness noungrappigheid فكاهَه، ظَرافَه комичност jocosidade komičnost die Komik morsomhed κωμικότητα humor, comicidad, jocosidad lõbusus شوخي آميز humoristisuus humour הוּמוֹר विनोद šaljivost, humor humor(osság) kelucuan fyndni, gamansemi comicità こっけいなこと 유머가 풍부함 juokingumas smieklīgums kelucuan humorvol munterhet, spøkefullhet śnieszność شوخی او ټوکی jocosidade umor забавность; комизм komickosť šaljivost humorističnost humor, humoristisk läggning ความตลกขบขัน güldürücülük, nüktelilik 幽默風趣 комічність ظرافت tính hài hước 富于幽默
-humouredhaving, or showing, feelings or a personality of a particular sort. a good-humoured person; an ill-humoured remark. gehumeurd ذو مِزاجٍ -хумор de (bom, etc) humor s ... náladou -gelaunt humørfyldt; humør- -διάθετος (ως β΄ συνθ.), που έχει μια συγκεκριμένη διάθεση de (...) humor -tujuline خلق -tuulinen de (...) humeur בְּמַצַב רוּחַ कथित प्रकार की मस्तिक स्थिति वाला raspoložen természetű; kedvű mengenai perasaan skapgóður/-stirður di (...) umore －きげんの 기분이 …한 -širdis -garastāvokļa-; -noskaņojuma- perangai -gehumeurd med ... humør w ... humorze, pełen ... humoru خلق de (bom, etc) humor cu... dispoziţie нрав s ... náladou ki je (...) volje -humora med ... humör (läggning), -lynt มีอารมณ์ขันเช่นนั้นเช่นนี้ ... huylu 有...脾氣的(如:脾氣好/壞脾氣的人)，心情...的 з якимсь характером, настроєм کسی قسم کا مزاج ہونا thuộc hài hước 脾气...的（后缀）
humour, noun, ends in -our.
humorous, adjective, drops the u.
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humour
→ دُعَابَةٌ humor humor Humor χιούμορ humor huumori humour humor umorismo ユーモア 유머 humor humor humor humor юмор humor อารมณ์ขัน mizah sự hài hước 幽默Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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