humour
a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,612 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,409 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling also: temper, mood, humor whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the timehe was in a bad humor
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter also: wit, humor, witticism, wittiness
- (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state also: humor the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile
- the liquid parts of the body also: liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor
- the quality of being funny also: humor I fail to see the humor in it
- the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous also: humor, sense of humor, sense of humour she didn't appreciate my humoryou can't survive in the army without a sense of humor
verb
- put into a good mood also: humor
humour in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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She was ready to accept almost anything as humour.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Major Brown received the explanation with complete simplicity and good humour.
The Club of Queer Trades · G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton · Chapter 1
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At present the horse seemed in no humour to allow himself to be mounted.
The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story · George Moore · Chapter 1
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Then wrap it up in a blanket of humour, sprinkle with fatuousness, and serve cold.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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He resented Paredes's words and attitude which he defined as studied to draw humour out of a tragic and desperate situation.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1