humournoun
UK US humor uk/ˈhjuː.mər/us/ˈhjuː.mɚ/humour noun (AMUSEMENT)
B1 [ U ] the ability to find things funny, the way in which people see that some things are funny, or the quality of being funny:
He's got a great sense of humour (= he is very able to see things as funny).
I must say I find his schoolboy (= childish) humour rather tiresome.
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- Then there were his cringe-making attempts at humour.
- Even a speech on a serious subject should be leavened with a little humour.
- She has a mischievous sense of humour.
- His writing is spiked with humour.
- Do you like his brand of humour?
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- hysterical
- jocular
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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humour noun (MOOD)
C2 [ C or U ] formal the state of your feelings:
You seem in a very good humour today.
Synonym
mood
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Moods
- -humoured
- be in one of your moods idiom
- black mood
- eat
- frame
- have a strop on idiom
- mind
- sb's state/frame of mind idiom
- snit
- spirit
- strop
- suck
- sulky
- temper
- temperament
- temperature
- tone
- up and down idiom
- what's eating sb? idiom
- yourself
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humourverb [ T ]
UK US humor uk/ˈhjuː.mər/us/ˈhjuː.mɚ/to do what someone wants so that they do not become annoyed or upset:
I applied for the job just to humour my parents.
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Calming and relaxing
- assuage
- balls-to-the-wall
- bask
- bread
- bread and circuses idiom
- calm
- chill
- lie down
- lighten sth up
- lighten up
- lull
- lull sb into sth
- melt
- relaxation
- settle
- simmer down
- slow down
- soften
- steady
- take/need a cold shower idiom
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