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Meaning of "black humour" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BLACK HUMOUR

black humour  [blæk ˈhjuːmə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLACK HUMOUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Black humour 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 HUMOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

black humour

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 HUMOUR


antitumor
ˌæntɪˈtjuːmə
assumer
əˈsjuːmə
consumer
kənˈsjuːmə
costumer
ˈkɒstjuːmə
dishumour
dɪsˈhjuːmə
exhumer
eksˈhjuːmə
fumer
ˈfjuːmə
humor
ˈhjuːmə
humour
ˈhjuːmə
inhumer
ɪnˈhjuːmə
neurohumor
ˌnjʊərəʊˈhjuːmə
outhumor
ˌaʊtˈhjuːmə
perfumer
pəˈfjuːmə
pneuma
ˈnjuːmə
presumer
prɪˈzjuːmə
prosumer
prəˈsjuːmə
puma
ˈpjuːmə
resumer
rɪˈzjuːmə
stumer
ˈstjuːmə
tumour
ˈtjuːmə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLACK HUMOUR

black hat
black heat
black hickory
Black Hills
black hole
Black Hole of Calcutta
black horehound
black house
black humor
black ice
Black Isle
black ivory
black japan
black kite
black knight
black knot
black lead
black letter
black light

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLACK HUMOUR

affaire d´amour
affaires d´amour
amour
aqueous humour
armour
body armour
brain tumour
cardinal humour
gallows humour
glamour
ill humour
lavatory humour
out of humour
peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour
rumour
secondary tumour
sense of humour
Seymour
toilet humour
vitreous humour

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

SYNONYMS

Translation of «black humour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLACK HUMOUR

Find out the translation of black humour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of black humour 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 humour» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

黑色幽默
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

humor negro
570 millions of speakers

English

black humour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

काला हास्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفكاهة السوداء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

черный юмор
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

humor negro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কালো হাসি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

humour noir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Humor hitam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schwarzer Humor
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ブラックユーモア
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

블랙 유머
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ireng humor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hài hước đen
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கருப்பு நகைச்சுவை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काळी विनोद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kara mizah
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

umorismo nero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czarny humor
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чорний гумор
40 millions of speakers

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 humour

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLACK HUMOUR»

The term «black humour» is regularly used and occupies the 92.268 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BLACK HUMOUR» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLACK HUMOUR»

Discover the use of black humour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to black humour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Black Humour in British Advertisement
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: 2,0 (B), http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Intercultural Economic Communications), course: Culture and Business UK, 8 ...
Claudia Felsch, 2007
2
Anthology of Black Humour
This is Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism.
André Breton, 2009
3
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
4
Dark Humor
experimentation, of course, is fuelled by black humour, but one could argue that large tracts of it certainly are. In the lyric, for example, one could point to the development of the long tradition of nonsense verse. Nonsense, of course, is not  ...
Harold Bloom, 2010
5
Compassion and Caring in Nursing
Nurses use 'black humour', or an in-house common language, to help them cope with illness and the loss of patients. Therefore, this can be seen as not necessarily demonstrating a lack of compassion, but as a way of maintaining humanity ...
Claire Chambers, Elaine Ryder, 2009
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The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality
More significantly, he cites the influences of Hegel and Freud, emphasizing black humour as a system of 'defence' (notably, rather than offence), a psychological ' process permitting us to brush aside reality in what is most painful about it'.14 ...
Glennis Byron, Andrew J. Sneddon, 2008
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Humour: A Very Short Introduction
Earlier, I discussed the phenomenon of black humour. I maintained that the target of things such as dead baby jokes was not dead babies but certain grim puritanical moralizers. Those folks cannot imaginatively entertain the premises of dead ...
Noël Carroll, 2014
8
Black Humour: A Canberra Contemporary Art Space Exhibition
Art of Gordon Hookey, Julie Gough, Campfire Group, Brook Andrew, Bianca Beetson, Brenda Palma, Gerard 'Bize' Scifo, Laurie Nilsen, Darryl (Milika) Pfitzner, Sue Eliot, Harold Wedge.
‎1997
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Смех На Погребу: Антицки Грцки Погребни Ритуал У Родној И ...
attitude to death (and of life) in antiquity, but also to refute the widespread opinion that black humour represents either an American invention of the late 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, or a European creation of the 1930s. In his study Black ...
Lada Stevanović, Драгана Радојичић, 2009
10
Understanding Animation
10 On black humour Playing on the tension that, perhaps, informed all of Avery's work, black humour emerges from the narrative preference to heighten the tragical aspects of the fine line between the tragic and the comic in the contemporary ...
Paul Wells, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLACK HUMOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term black humour is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Anthony Head Wants Doctor Who Return for Mr Finch
As well as the pool scene in which Head was very good, he also had a few nice sly lines – villains always have that silky black humour. «Doctor Who UK Webzine, Jul 15»
2
We've seen Dr Jekyll. Can Cork conceal Mr Hyde?
Such was the black humour in Cork last week that some wag wondered was it the skipper moving around the deck chairs on the Titanic, ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
3
She's landed on her feet
“I love the black humour of that show.” When we meet, she has just danced Giselle at La Scala, Milan, with another prodigy — Sergei Polunin, ... «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
4
Born in west Baltimore, photographer is helping tell his city's story
not at all.a little “black humour”in a first responder type job goes a long way.i suspect you know little about saving lives or protecting citizens in ... «Baltimore Brew, Jul 15»
5
Memorial service to be held for flight MH17 victims on July 11
In a moment of black humour, Mr Pan snapped a picture of the Boeing 777-200 that he and Ms Tol were about to board and posted the picture ... «AsiaOne, Jul 15»
6
This week's new theatre
Add to this the tale of his brother's death due to homophobia and it all sounds pretty grim, but Kinevane presents all this with black humour ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
Greek crisis: bank reserves plummet to $736m
Amid the grimness, many Greeks shrug their shoulders, comment how “nothing will change'' and resort to some black humour. One joke about ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
8
'Guddu Rangeela' Review: An '80s Potboiler With 'Ishqiya'-Like …
... and many scenes -- such as one that involves a character's injured buttocks -- are facile attempts at black humour that don't work at all. «Huffington Post India, Jul 15»
9
Asif Kapadia's Amy Winehouse documentary explains her descent
“There's a lot of wit in her and black humour in the songs and lyrics — it really grabs you.” Kapadia's proximity to her life also intrigued him. «The Australian, Jul 15»
10
Nialler9's New Irish Music: Pranks, Come On Live Long and Staring …
... and disorientating experience for the viewer as we are not dealing in anything too concrete here, just ambiguity laced with black humour.". «Irish Times, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Black humour [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/black-humour>. Apr 2024 ».
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