humour

humour /'hju:mə/
  • danh từ ((từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) (cũng) humor)
    • sự hài hước, sự hóm hỉnh
      • a story full of humour: một câu chuyện rất hài hước, một câu chuyện rất hóm hỉnh
    • khả năng nhận thức được cái hài hước; khả năng nhận thức được cái hóm hỉnh, sự biết hài hước, sự biết đùa
      • to have no sense of humour: không biết hài hước, không biết đùa
    • tính khí, tâm trạng
      • to be in good humour: tâm trạng vui vẻ
      • to be in bad humour: tâm trạng không được vui, bực bội; cáu gắt
      • to be out of humour: khó chịu, bực bội, gắt gỏng
    • ý thích, ý thiên về
      • not to be in the humour for joking: không thích đùa
    • dịch, thể dịch (trong cơ thể)
      • vitreous humour: dịch thuỷ tinh (trong cầu mắt)
  • ngoại động từ
    • chiều lòng, làm vừa lòng, chiều theo (ý thích, tính khí của ai)

Lĩnh vực: y học
 dịch, thể dịch

aqueous humour
 thủy dịch
vitreous humour
 pha lê dịch

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humour

Từ điển Collocation

humour noun

1 amusing quality/ability to find things funny

ADJ. wry With wry humour, they laugh at their misfortunes. | irreverent | caustic, sardonic | black, dark, gallows, grim | self-deprecating | gentle | tongue-in-cheek | slapstick, visual | unconscious, unintentional | deadpan, dry | schoolboy His colleagues soon got fed up with his schoolboy humour. | lavatorial

QUANT. touch Her speech was serious, but not without the occasional touch of humour.

VERB + HUMOUR be full of, contain The stories are full of humour. | appreciate, see The man who lost his shoes failed to see the humour of the situation.

PHRASES a brand of humour a television sitcom with its own peculiar brand of humour | sense of humour to have a dry/good/great/warped/weird/wicked sense of humour

2 mood

ADJ. good Her good humour was restored by the excellent meal.

PHRASES in (a) good humour The remarks were made in good humour. He was obviously in a good humour this evening.


Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; temper, mood, humor

    whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time

    he was in a bad humor

  • a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter; 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; humor

    the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile

  • the liquid parts of the body; liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor
  • the quality of being funny; humor

    I fail to see the humor in it

  • the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; humor, sense of humor, sense of humour

    she didn't appreciate my humor

    you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor

    v.

  • put into a good mood; humor

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: bodily fluid body fluid humor liquid body substance mood sense of humor sense of humour temper wit witticism wittiness