GOOD HUMOUR

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cheerful and agreeable mood

Synonyms:

amiability; good humor; good humour; good temper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("good humour" is a kind of...):

humor; humour; mood; temper (a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "good humour"):

jolliness; jollity; joviality (feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor)

Credits

Context examples:

Faulkner claimed to be champion of the seniors, and even old Buckhorse’s curious call rang out above the tumult as he turned the whole company to laughter and good humour again by challenging anything over eighty and under seven stone.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was short and plump, had a very pretty face, and the finest expression of good humour in it that could possibly be.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Sophy puts her in good humour!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While well, and happy, and properly attended to, she had great good humour and excellent spirits; but any indisposition sunk her completely.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A resemblance in good humour and good spirits had recommended her and Lydia to each other, and out of their three months' acquaintance they had been intimate two.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The general's good humour increased.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The young people were all at home, and sustained their share in the introduction very well, with much good humour, and no embarrassment, at least on the part of the sons, who, at seventeen and sixteen, and tall of their age, had all the grandeur of men in the eyes of their little cousin.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Thenceforward he doubled the pains he had been at to instruct me: he brought me into all company, and made them treat me with civility; because, as he told them, privately, this would put me into good humour, and make me more diverting.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting: as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in good humour; and when, having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and while she got up Mrs. Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders, fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads; or (as at a later period I discovered) from the pages of Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)