humour

Meanings

Noun

• The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
• A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
• Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
• Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
• Moist vapour, moisture.

Verb

• To pacify by indulging.

Related

Similar words

• comedy, wit, witticism

Origin

• From Middle English humour, from Old French humor, from Latin humor, correctly umor, from humō, correctly umō.