humour Definition

humour
humor
noun

1. The quality of being amusing.

Thesaurus: comedy, amusement, clowning, facetiousness, farce, jesting, jocularity, merriment, raillery, wit.
2. The ability to appreciate and enjoy something amusing.
3. A specified temperament or state of mind.

Example: He is in good humour today
Thesaurus: mood, bent, disposition, fancy, frame of mind, propensity, temper.
4. Writings, plays, speeches, etc that are amusing or funny.
5. A specified type of fluid in the body.

Example: aqueous humour
6. physiol., historical
Any of the four bodily fluids (blood senses 1,5, choler, melancholy and phlegm) formerly believed to determine a person's physical health and character.

verb humoured, humouring

1. To please or gratify someone by doing what they wish.

Thesaurus: accommodate, appease, indulge, pamper, spoil, mollify, cosset, placate, flatter, gratify, baby; Antonym: enrage, provoke, thwart.
2. To adapt to eg the mood or ideas of someone else.

Idiom: out of humour

Displeased or disgruntled; in a bad mood.

Derivative: humourless
adj

Lacking a sense of humour
Thesaurus: morose, glum, dour, crass, dull, tedious; Antonym: witty.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin humor liquid.