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humor — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • humour noun (UK) The quality of being funny, or the ability to find things funny.
  • mode noun A particular way or method of doing something.
  • mood noun A temporary state of mind or feeling.

Senses

humor is used for these senses in English:

  • humour (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
  • humour (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
  • mode A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
  • mood A mental or emotional state, composure.
  • mood A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
  • mood A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

humour — full definition

  1. noun (UK) The quality of being funny, or the ability to find things funny.
  2. noun (UK) A person's mood or temporary state of mind.
  3. verb (UK) To go along with someone's wishes to keep them happy, even if you disagree.

mode — full definition

  1. noun A particular way or method of doing something.
  2. noun (statistics) The value that occurs most often in a set of data.
  3. noun A particular state of mind or way of behaving.
  4. noun (music) One of several traditional scales, such as the major or minor scale.

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