humour or US humor /hūˈmər or ūˈmər/ noun- A mental quality that apprehends and delights in the ludicrous and mirthful
- That which causes mirth and amusement
- The quality of being funny
- Playful fancy
- Temperament or disposition of mind
- State of mind (as in good humour, ill humour)
- Disposition
- Caprice
- In Corporal Nym's vocabulary in Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V (also as adjective and transitive verb, and hūˈmoured adjective) a word of any meaning, down to no meaning at all (Shakespeare)
- Moisture (archaic)
- A fluid (medicine)
- A fluid of the animal body, esp formerly any one of the four that in old physiology were held to determine temperament
transitive verb- To go along with the humour of
- To gratify by compliance
ORIGIN: OFr humor (Fr humeur), from L (h)ūmor, from (h)ūmēre to be moist hūˈmoral adjective Relating to or proceeding from a body fluid hūˈmoralism noun - The state of being humoral
- The old doctrine that diseases have their seat in the humours
hūˈmoralist noun Someone who favoured the doctrine of humoralism hūˈmorally adverb hūmoreskˈ or hūmoresqueˈ noun - A humorous piece of music
- A musical caprice
hūˈmorist noun - Someone possessed of a sense of humour
- A writer of comic stories
- A person whose conduct and conversation are regulated by humour or caprice (archaic)
- A person who studies or portrays the humours of people
hūmorisˈtic adjective Humorous hūˈmorous adjective - Full of humour
- Exciting laughter
- Governed by humour (archaic)
- Capricious (archaic)
- Irregular (archaic)
hūˈmorously adverb hūˈmorousness noun hūˈmourless or (US) huˈmorless adjective hūˈmoursome adjective Capricious, petulant hūˈmoursomeness noun humoral immunity noun An acquired immunity in which antibodies circulating in body fluids play the major part comedy of humours The comedy of Ben Jonson and his school in which the characters, instead of being conceived as rounded individuals, are little more than personifications of single qualities out of humour Displeased, in a bad mood |