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humoured

humoured is the simple past and past participle of humour.

Adjective

humoured (comparative more humoured, superlative most humoured)

  1. (in-compounds) Having a disposition or mood of a specified kind.
  2. Spoilt. indulged.
    • Besides these two fair Damsels, I found a little humoured Brat here who I beleive^([sic]) is some relation to them […].1792, Jane Austen, ‘Lesley Castle’, Juvenilia

Meaning of humour

Verb

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

  1. (UK, transitive) To pacify by indulging.
    • I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.

See all 6 meanings of humour

Forms of humoured

Verb
alternative formhumored
alternative formhumour'd
Adjective
comparativemore humoured
superlativemost humoured

Words formed from humoured

Questions about humoured

What does humoured mean?
Humoured means having a disposition or mood of a specified kind.
What is humoured the simple past and past participle of?
Humoured is the simple past and past participle of humour.
What part of speech is humoured?
Humoured is an adjective.

Words near humoured in the dictionary

  1. humorsomely
  2. humorsomeness
  3. humour
  4. humour'd
  5. humoural
  6. humoured
  7. humouredly
  8. humourful
  9. humouring
  10. humourise
  11. humourised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humoured (page history and authors); humour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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