melancholy vs humour

humour vs melancholy

melancholy and humour both are nouns.

melancholy is an adjective but humour is not an adjective.

melancholy is not a verb while humour is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
melancholy	Yes	Yes	No	No
humour	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, humour is a hypernym of melancholy; that is, humour is a word with a broader meaning than melancholy:

melancholy: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
humour: the liquid parts of the body

Other hypernyms of melancholy include bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, liquid body substance.

melancholy (noun)	humour (noun)
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy	the quality of being funny
a feeling of thoughtful sadness	the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed	the liquid parts of the body
	(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
	a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
	a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

melancholy (adjective)	humour (adjective)
grave or even gloomy in character
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

melancholy (verb)	humour (verb)
	put into a good mood

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