humour: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 11 letter points · starts with H · ends with R
Meaning of humour
noun
- UK, uncountable, usually
The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
Example: She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.
- UK, uncountable, usually
A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
Example: He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.
- UK, uncountable, usually
Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- UK, obsolete, uncountable, usually
Moist vapour, moisture.
Listed forms: humours, humor.
Source: Wiktionary — humour.
verb
- UK, transitive
To pacify by indulging.
Example: I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
Listed forms: humours, humouring, humoured, humor.
Source: Wiktionary — humour.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for humour.
noun
a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
noun
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
noun
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
noun
the liquid parts of the body
- liquid body substance
- bodily fluid
- body fluid
- humor
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is humour in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Not found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of humour
H(4) + U(1) + M(3) + O(1) + U(1) + R(1) = 11 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of humour
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from humour
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