📖 H — The English dictionary · page 37

humorous — Everyday, meaning 1: Funny; making people laugh or smile (a humorous story).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Showing a sense of humour; liking to joke (a humorous person).↗ Example: We read a humorous poem about a lazy cat.↗ · She wrote a humorous story about her dog.↗ · The speech was humorous and short.↗ · Grandad is very humorous; he tells jokes all day.↗ · The film has humorous moments.↗ · He told the story in a humorous way.↗ · The humorous poem was admirably recited, and the speaker much applauded.↗

humorously — Everyday, meaning 1: In a funny way that makes people smile or laugh.↗ Example: Grandpa told the story humorously, and we all laughed.↗ · The book humorously describes a cat's day.↗ · He humorously suggested we hire an elephant to carry our bags.↗ · The teacher humorously called the messy desk «a work of art».↗ · She humorously answered, «Only on Tuesdays!»↗

humour — Everyday, meaning 1: The quality of being funny: «The book is full of humour».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The ability to see what is funny and to laugh: «a good sense of humour».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To go along with what someone wants to keep them happy, even if you don't agree: «Just humour him».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (old) A mood: «in a good humour».↗ Example: My dad has a great sense of humour.↗ · The story is full of humour and surprises.↗ · We use humour to cheer each other up.↗ · He took the joke with good humour.↗ · Just humour Grandpa and listen to his old stories again.↗ · Her humour is clever and kind.↗ · “Dance away, my little man,” said Peter, who was in high good humour.↗

humourous — Everyday, meaning 1: «Humourous» is a common misspelling of «humorous», which means funny or meant to make people laugh.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Some writers use «humourous» by mistake because the UK noun is «humour» with a «u».↗ Example: The correct spelling is «humorous», not «humourous».↗ · She wrote a humorous poem about her cat.↗ · My teacher circled «humourous» in red and wrote «humorous».↗ · British English has «humour», but still «humorous».↗ · The film was humorous and kind.↗ · A humorous speech makes the audience laugh.↗

hump — Everyday, meaning 1: A hump is a round lump that sticks up, such as on a camel's back.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hump is a small hill or a raised part of a road, like a speed hump.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Over the hump» means past the hardest part.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Have the hump» (British) means to be grumpy.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To hump means to heave or strain hard, pushing your body along with great effort.↗ Example: A camel stores fat in its hump.↗ · The car slowed down for the speed hump.↗ · Humpback whales have a hump on their backs.↗ · We cycled over a hump in the path.↗ · The hardest part is done — we're over the hump.↗ · My brother's got the hump because he lost.↗ · Shortly afterward, refreshments, consisting mostly of Camel's hump and ribs, were served to the company.↗

humpback — Everyday, meaning 1: A humpback, or humpback whale, is a very large whale with long flippers that is famous for its songs and its leaps out of the water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A humpback bridge is a small bridge that rises steeply in the middle like a hump.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old-fashioned, can be unkind) A humpback was an old word for a person with a curved, bent-over back; today we say a person has a curved spine.↗ Example: A humpback leapt right out of the sea and crashed back down.↗ · Humpback whales sing songs that can last for hours.↗ · We saw three humpbacks on the whale-watching trip in Sydney.↗ · Humpbacks have no teeth; they filter krill through baleen.↗ · The car slowed down for the humpback bridge.↗ · A baby humpback is called a calf.↗ · Humpbacks travel to warm waters to have their calves.↗ · The humpback slapped its long white flipper on the water.↗

humus — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The dark, rich part of soil made from dead and rotting leaves, plants and animals; it feeds plants.↗ Example: Worms help turn dead leaves into humus.↗ · Humus makes the soil dark and rich.↗ · Plants grow well in soil full of humus.↗ · Compost becomes humus over time.↗ · The top layer of the forest floor is rich in humus.↗ · Humus holds water like a sponge.↗

hun — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) The Huns were a nomadic people from Central Asia who rode into Europe in the 300s and 400s AD; their most famous leader was Attila.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (slang, UK and Australia) «Hun» is a short form of «honey», used as a friendly or loving way to call someone, like «love» or «dear».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (offensive, historical) In the First and Second World Wars «the Hun» was an insulting name British people used for German soldiers; it is not used for people today.↗ Example: Attila the Hun led his army across Europe.↗ · The Huns fought on horseback and moved from place to place.↗ · «Thanks for the cake, hun!» said Mum's friend.↗ · «Don't cry, hun, it's only a scratch,» said the nurse.↗ · Old wartime posters called German soldiers «the Hun».↗ · The Romans feared the Huns more than almost any other enemy.↗ · «Love you, hun x,» she wrote at the end of the text.↗ · He searched, and found a large golden armlet of superior workmanship, and it was evident that the plough had disturbed a Hun's grave.↗

hunch — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) A feeling that something is true, even though you have no proof.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To bend your back and shoulders forward and up, often from cold, tiredness or worry.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, old) A hump or lump.↗ Example: I had a hunch it would rain, so I took an umbrella.↗ · The detective followed his hunch and found the thief.↗ · He hunched over his book, reading.↗ · The old man hunched his shoulders against the wind.↗ · Mole hunched himself up in the hollow of a tree.↗ · Scientists test their hunches with careful experiments.↗ · Don't hunch over your desk; sit up straight.↗ · "It looks very near," said Jane, hunching up her shoulders to keep her neck warm.↗

hunchback — Everyday, meaning 1: A back with a big hump or curve, from a medical condition (kyphosis).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned, often hurtful) A person with such a back; today it is kinder to say a person with a curved spine.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a famous novel by Victor Hugo about Quasimodo.↗ Example: Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame, rang the cathedral bells.↗ · Sitting badly for years can give you a slightly hunched back.↗ · In old stories, a hunchback was often wrongly shown as wicked.↗ · The doctor checked his spine for a hunchback.↗ · Don't call people names about their bodies.↗ · The novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was written by Victor Hugo.↗ · The hunchback having agreed to his proposal, the tailor closed his shop and they set off together.↗

hunched — Everyday, meaning 1: Bent forward with the back curved and shoulders raised.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To bend your back and shoulders forward, often from cold, tiredness or worry.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «hunched over» something — leaning over it closely.↗ Example: She sat hunched over her homework.↗ · The old man walked slowly, hunched against the wind.↗ · Don't sit hunched over your tablet.↗ · He hunched his shoulders in the cold.↗ · The cat sat hunched on the wall.↗ · They were hunched together under one umbrella.↗ · She sat hunched up against the wail, and as she looked like a bundle of rags they did not notice her.↗

hundred — Everyday, meaning 1: A hundred is the number 100, ten tens.↗ A hundred is 100.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hundreds means many, a large number, without an exact count.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The hundreds place is the third digit from the right in a whole number.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A hundred per cent means all of something, or completely.↗ Example: The school has three hundred pupils.↗ · A hundred cents make one dollar.↗ · What digit is in the hundreds place of 452?↗ · Hundreds of birds flew by.↗ · There are 100 centimetres in a metre.↗ · I've told you a hundred times to tidy your room!↗ · She counted to a hundred during hide and seek.↗ · He scored a hundred per cent on the spelling test.↗ · A century is a hundred years.↗ · 'Two hundred hussars, forward!' cried he.↗ · and thirty thousand and five hundred asses, (Torah NUM.31.45, JPS 1917)↗ · So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old.↗ (Torah GEN.50.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.↗ (Torah GEN.5.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made a hundred basins of gold.↗ (Writings 2CH.4.8, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.↗ (Writings EZR.2.9, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.↗ (Writings EZR.2.18, JPS 1917)↗

hundredfold — Everyday, meaning 1: A hundredfold means a hundred times as much or as many.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible, literary) Hundredfold means greatly or many times over.↗ Example: The number of visitors grew a hundredfold.↗ · If you invest wisely, your work may be repaid a hundredfold.↗ · The cost of the stamp increased a hundredfold since Grandad was a boy.↗ · (Bible) Some seed fell on good ground and gave fruit a hundredfold.↗ · The bacteria multiplied a hundredfold overnight.↗ · A hundredfold increase means ×100.↗ · The deaths by snake-bite and tigers shall increase a hundredfold from this day, and day by day it shall continue to increase till your release.↗ · And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him.↗ (Torah GEN.26.12, JPS 1917)↗

hundredth — Everyday, meaning 1: Hundredth means number 100 in order, coming after the ninety-ninth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hundredth is one of a hundred equal parts of something, written 1/100 or 0.01.↗ Example: One cent is one hundredth of a dollar.↗ · In 4.27 the 7 is in the hundredths place.↗ · She won the race by two hundredths of a second.↗ · Our class celebrated the hundredth day of school.↗ · Seven hundredths is written as 0.07.↗ · A centimetre is a hundredth of a metre.↗ · Round 3.456 to the nearest hundredth: 3.46.↗ · At last, on the five-hundredth day from the day of starting, I saw far off on the horizon what looked like the peak of a mountain.↗ · In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.↗ (Torah GEN.7.11, JPS 1917)↗

hundredweight — Everyday, meaning 1: A hundredweight is a unit for weighing heavy things: in Britain it is 112 pounds, and in America it is 100 pounds.↗ Example: A sack of coal can weigh a hundredweight.↗ · He could not lift a hundredweight of stone.↗ · The cart carried three hundredweight of apples.↗

hungarian — Everyday, meaning 1: Hungarian means from or connected with Hungary, a country in central Europe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A Hungarian is a person from Hungary.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) Hungarian is the language spoken in Hungary, also called Magyar.↗ Example: Budapest is the Hungarian capital.↗ · Our new classmate is Hungarian.↗ · The Rubik's Cube was invented by a Hungarian, Ernő Rubik.↗ · Hungarian is a hard language for English speakers.↗ · We ate Hungarian goulash for tea.↗ · «Szia» means hi in Hungarian.↗ · Many Hungarians love paprika.↗ · The story related that a Hungarian knight, who had been taken prisoner by a Turkish pasha, was most cruelly treated by him.↗

hunger — Everyday, meaning 1: Hunger is the feeling of needing or wanting food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hunger is a serious lack of food for a long time, which makes people ill.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A hunger for something is a strong wish for it.↗ Example: Hunger made my tummy rumble.↗ · Many children around the world suffer from hunger.↗ · Food banks help families facing hunger.↗ · She has a hunger for adventure.↗ · A good breakfast stops hunger in the morning.↗ · The lost hikers felt cold and hunger.↗ · And meanwhile his hunger grew and grew.↗ · The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.↗ (Torah DEU.32.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.↗ (Writings PRO.19.15, JPS 1917)↗ · The hunger of the labouring man laboureth for him; for his mouth compelleth him.↗ (Writings PRO.16.26, JPS 1917)↗ · The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek the LORD want not any good thing.↗ (Writings PSA.34.11, JPS 1917)↗

hungover — Everyday, meaning 1: Someone who is hungover feels ill, tired and has a headache because they drank too much alcohol the night before.↗ Example: Dad looked hungover after the wedding party.↗ · He was too hungover to eat breakfast.↗ · She said she would never drink so much again, because being hungover was awful.↗ · The hungover man asked for water and a dark room.↗ · My uncle had a hangover on New Year's Day.↗ · You can't drive safely if you are still affected by drink.↗

hungrily — Everyday, meaning 1: Hungrily means in a way that shows you want food very much.↗ Example: The dog watched the meat hungrily.↗ · The boys ate their bread hungrily after the long walk.↗ · The wolf looked hungrily at the sheep.↗

hungry — Everyday, meaning 1: Hungry means feeling that you need or want to eat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hungry can mean wanting something very much: «hungry for success».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Hungry can describe people who do not have enough food.↗ Example: I am hungry — what's for dinner?↗ · The hungry cat meowed at its bowl.↗ · After swimming we are always hungry.↗ · Eat breakfast so you are not hungry in class.↗ · Many people in the world go hungry.↗ · The team was hungry for a win.↗ · The very hungry caterpillar ate through the leaves.↗ · Are you hungry or just bored?↗ · ‘I am so hungry,’ said Lisa.↗ · Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.↗ (Writings PSA.107.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Who executeth justice for the oppressed; who giveth bread to the hungry.↗ (Writings PSA.146.7, JPS 1917)↗ · So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves; (Writings JOB.24.10, JPS 1917)↗