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Definition of Black humour
1. Noun. The juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect.
Definition of Black humour
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of black humor) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Humour
Literary usage of Black humour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1883)
"... exhilarates the mind.purgeth the brain of those anxious black melancholy fumes,
and cleanseth the whole body of that black humour by urine. ..."
2. Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton by Laura Emma Lockwood (1907)
"(I,) black humour, black bile or melancholy, one of the four chief fluids of the
body : these were supposed to determine, by their conditions and ..."
3. Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and ...by Thomas Browne, Nath Ekins by Thomas Browne, Nath Ekins (1658)
"... and Such a condition there is naturally in 1'omc living creatures. Thus that
black humour by Ar\$oilc named Ь^,and ..."
4. The Bookman (1907)
""Oh, for God's sake," cried Sanchon in a black humour, "don't mock at death."
"Phew !" was all he heard as he turned into a side street, ruminating on that ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1883)
"... exhilarates the mind.purgeth the brain of those anxious black melancholy fumes,
and cleanseth the whole body of that black humour by urine. ..."
6. Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton by Laura Emma Lockwood (1907)
"(I,) black humour, black bile or melancholy, one of the four chief fluids of the
body : these were supposed to determine, by their conditions and ..."
7. Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and ...by Thomas Browne, Nath Ekins by Thomas Browne, Nath Ekins (1658)
"... and Such a condition there is naturally in 1'omc living creatures. Thus that
black humour by Ar\$oilc named Ь^,and ..."
8. The Bookman (1907)
""Oh, for God's sake," cried Sanchon in a black humour, "don't mock at death."
"Phew !" was all he heard as he turned into a side street, ruminating on that ..."
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