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humour English

Meaning humour meaning

What does humour mean?
Definitions in simple English

humour Noun

— Humour is ideas that make people laugh: jokes, funny things. I like the stories she tells because they're full of humour.

humour Verb

— To humour someone is to agree with them only to make the them happy.

humour

— noun (= humor, sense of humor, sense of 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 — noun (= humor) (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 — noun (= humor) the quality of being funny I fail to see the humor in it — verb (= humor) put into a good mood — noun (= wit) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter — noun (= temper, humor) 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 — noun (= liquid body substance) the liquid parts of the body

Synonyms humour synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as humour?

humour English » English

humor mood temper wit fun witticism sense of humour pamper jest wittiness spirit joke indulge flatter disposition cheer cajole body fluid bodily fluid temperament spirits sense of humor pleasure please pleasantry liquid body substance joking hilarity funniness enjoyment comedy coax amusement wind whim wheedle vein trick treat with indulgence tend with care succus study spoil soothe ridicule resilience render effeminate render delicate prank phlegm

Conjugation humour conjugation

How do you conjugate humour?

humour · verb

Examples humour examples

How do I use humour in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He has a great sense of humour.
Germans have no sense of humour? I don't find that funny!
Tom doesn't understand British humour.
Tom has a great sense of humour.
His humour is very deadpan.
He doesn't understand British humour.
She doesn't understand British humour.
People with no humour are like meadows without flowers.
Humour is the satire of yesterday.
You have a sense of humour. I like that.
It's not possible to develop a sense of humour; you've got to be born with one.
I don't understand British humour.
You don't understand British humour.

Movie subtitles

You English have such a sense of humour.
No doubt he has a better sense of humour.
I'm afraid that my sister has a somewhat distorted sense of humour.
That's quite possible, Field Marshall. British sense of humour is unpredictable, you know.
Humour, my dear Colonel Fitzhume, is founded on truth.
He's got a sense of humour.
That's the humour of it.
I cannot kiss, that's the humour of it, but.adieu.
You have a great sense of humour.
My wife's lost her sense of humour.
At times, your sense of humour is a little too malicious, chum.
Probably a symptom of approaching senility, but I must confess I really don't appreciate this morbid humour.
The humour was unintentional.
You'd have to add something that appealed to your warped sense of humour.
Oh, what a charming sense of humour!
Now don't take advantage of my good humour. - If you do.
Somebody must be in good humour.
The newspapers made him a target for their feeble humour.
A fitting climax to my sense of humour.
Where is your sense of humour?
My dear, my dear, it wasn't meant for humour.
For there are husbands who have no sense of humour on this subject, Major Finsbury.
We'd better go and dress. -Rather primitive humour, I thought.
Well, whoever it is, at least has a sense of humour.
Alec has such a sense of humour. He needs it, don't you think?
I don't like your sense of humour.
I beg of you. The family understands your humour, but it's a typical New York humour.
It was very good of you, Madeline, to humour the whim of a lonely man.
No sense of humour.
You have a very nice sense of humour, hasn't he, Miss Kelly?
We've got to humour him. - Hello, Elwood.
If you didn't have to humour Mr. Dowd, you wouldn't have remembered at all.
I'm not dancing with you to humour Mr. Dowd.
I hope you haven't lost your sense of humour.
Well, Petya, you have to humour women a little!
Could I ask you to humour him?
You must try, Comrade Zilkov, to cultivate a sense of humour.

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