Definizione monolingua

humour

humour (third-person singular simple present humours, present participle humouring, simple past and past participle humoured)

1. (transitive) To pacify by indulging.

   I know you dont believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

humour (plural humours)

1. (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.
2. (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four ""cardinal humours"" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 147:

     A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.

   • M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40:

     For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.

3. Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
4. Ones state of mind or disposition; ones mood.

   • He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.

5. The quality in events, speech or writing which is seen as funny, or creates amusement, such as a joke, satire, parody, etc.

Definizione dizionario humour

umore

umorismo

assecondare

compiacere

disposizione

spirito

stato d’animo

Altri significati:

mood

The ability to laugh at things that are amusing; the ability to be funny.

something funny

to pacify by indulging

Four fluids, namely blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm, associated with the four basic elements of nature, that were thought to permeate the body and influence its health.

bodily fluid

(obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.

Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

(transitive) To pacify by indulging.

One's state of mind or disposition; one's mood.

(archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.

The state of one's feelings or mind at a particular time.

The quality in something that makes it funny or amusing.

The quality in events, speech or writing which is seen as funny, or creates amusement, such as a joke, satire, parody, etc.