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Xem thêm: temper, mood, humor, wit, humor, witticism, wittiness, humor, liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humor, humor, sense of humor, sense of humour, humor
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.
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whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time
he was in a bad humor
the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile
I fail to see the humor in it
she didn't appreciate my humor
you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor
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