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" It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor."
Jerry Leiber

Meaning of "black humor" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF BLACK HUMOR

blæk ˈhjuːmə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLACK HUMOR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Black humor is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BLACK HUMOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Black comedy

A black comedy is a comic work that employs black humor, which, in its most basic definition, is humor that makes light of otherwise serious subject matter. Black humor corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BLACK HUMOR

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLACK HUMOR

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WORDS THAT END LIKE BLACK HUMOR

antiarmor · armor · confirmor · cremor · earth tremor · East Timor · enamor · Fermor · gimmor · glamor · Leigh Fermor · mor · omnia vincit amor · Portuguese Timor · rumor · Tadmor · termor · Timor · tremor

Synonyms and antonyms of black humor in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «black humor» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLACK HUMOR

Find out the translation of black humor to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of black humor from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «black humor» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

黑色幽默
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

humor negro
570 millions of speakers
en

English

black humor
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

काला हास्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفكاهة السوداء
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

черный юмор
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

humor negro
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

কালো হাস্যরস
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

humour noir
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Humor hitam
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

schwarzer Humor
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ブラックユーモア
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

블랙 유머
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ireng humor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hài hước đen
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

கருப்பு நகைச்சுவை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

काळी विनोद
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Kara mizah
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

umorismo nero
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

czarny humor
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

чорний гумор
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

umor negru
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαύρο χιούμορ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Swart humor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

svart humor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

svart humor
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of black humor

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about black humor

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QUOTES WITH «BLACK HUMOR»

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Jerry Leiber
It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLACK HUMOR»

Discover the use of black humor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to black humor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Anthology of Black Humor
This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired.
Andre Breton, 1997
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Laughing Fit to Kill : Black Humor in the Fictions of ...
Similarly, she reveals how the iconoclastic literary works of Ishmael Reed and Suzan-Lori Parks use satire, hyperbole, and burlesque humor to represent a violent history and to take on issues of racial injustice.
Glenda Carpio Associate Professor of African American Studies and of English and American Literature and Language Harvard University, 2008
3
Raymond Carver's Short Fiction in the History of Black Humor
This first book-length study on the black humor in Raymond Carver's work includes valuable interpretations of Carver's aesthetics as well as the psycho-social implications of his short fiction.
Jingqiong Zhou, 2006
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The Secret of Humor
Chapter Eight Black Humor: Aggression Against Everything Although there is no general agreement on a definition of "black humor," most readers have some notion of what the term means. Black Humor blends more bitterness, or sadness,  ...
Leonard Feinberg, 1978
5
Black Humor: Critical Essays
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Alan R. Pratt, 1993
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Writing Humor: Creativity and the Comic Mind
Grotesque Humor (Black Humor) When the cartoonist Charles Addams got married, the ceremony was held — where else? — in his favorite cemetery. And the bride wore black. All in keeping with his New Yorker cartoons of the Addams  ...
Mary Ann Rishel, 2002
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Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor
2 Similarly, he is repelled by the term "black humor," which he claims was invented by Time magazine,3 but his resistance has definite limits: "I resent the term 'Black Humor' tremendously. I hate that term. I don't know what it means. Yet if there ...
Sarah Blacher Cohen, 1990
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Dark Humor
While the term “black humor” is now seen by some to be a pejorative, O'Neill, writing in the early 1980s, uses the term to describe dark or “gallows” humor, citing key studies on the subject and arguing that dark humor “allows us to envisage the ...
Harold Bloom, 2010
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Hitchcock's Romantic Irony
In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview ...
Richard Allen, 2013
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On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy from ...
Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, ...
Mel Watkins, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLACK HUMOR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term black humor is used in the context of the following news items.
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Exclusive: Gail Simone & Cat Staggs on Their New Image Title …
Crosswind is described as a black humor, suspense fantasy about a “sharp hitman from Chicago and a seemingly unremarkable housewife ... «The Mary Sue, Jul 15»
2
Anna's Quest Review
While there are times where serious themes are touched on or referenced, they added to the black humor of the game. I don't want to spoil ... «Only Single Player, Jul 15»
3
Morningside: Home to an independent spirit, Tippi Hedren, and two …
They cite the black humor and free-spirited message and the touching, unconventional love story. In one of those pieces, written during the ... «MinnPost, Jul 15»
4
Mark Duplass And Patrick Brice Talk Horror-Comedy 'Creep' — Out …
... Creep may very well be the first horror film of its kind to mesh elements of a pitch-black humor while commenting on the heightened paranoia ... «Decider, Jun 15»
5
Stage Door: Happy Days
Some moments underscore Beckett's black humor, comic in their absurdity. Others are meditations on the rueful nature of aging and the ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
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MTV's Scream: 6 Reasons to get excited for the summer horror hit
That's the tone of the show in a nutshell: Deadly with pitch-black humor. "We will continue with the fun, twisted humor that the movies were so ... «SheKnows.com, Jun 15»
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Focus on love: The secret to finding your perfect partner
Sense of humor – dry, witty, black humor, sarcasm. 11.Creativity – writing, dance, cooking, drawing, hobbies? 12. Financial – how important is ... «New York Daily News, Jun 15»
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Brazilian Horror Flick Mosquitoid Launches B-Movie Flavored …
All this washed down with very black humor, blood and some sensuality. Before digging into your bank account for some spare coin for the de ... «Dread Central, Jun 15»
9
We're seeing what impact warming is having now
And many may appreciate the black humor in Shell Oil Company now suffering because it wants global warming that it claims doesn't exist to ... «Idaho Press-Tribune, Jun 15»
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Theater review | 'Richard III': Actor's Theatre succeeds with sinister …
... the kind of subtlety that doesn't necessarily work well in an outdoor setting for pitch-black humor and some genuinely creepy moments. «Columbus Dispatch, Jun 15»
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