GOOD HUMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good humor mean? 

• GOOD HUMOR (noun)
  The noun GOOD HUMOR has 1 sense:

1. a cheerful and agreeable mood

  Familiarity information: GOOD HUMOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD HUMOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cheerful and agreeable mood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

amiability; good humor; good humour; good temper

Hypernyms ("good humor" 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 humor"):

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

Antonym:

ill humor (an angry and disagreeable mood)

 Context examples 

"The man on horseback will arrive before that time," Martin retorted with good humor, and returned to Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I observed that Amy took drumsticks at dinner, ran errands for her mother all the afternoon, gave Meg her place tonight, and has waited on every one with patience and good humor.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Rising in no very good humor at the interruption, he gave the word to enter; but his look of impatience softened down into a pleasant and paternal smile as his eyes fell upon his visitor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you'd seen him sitting up in that tree hob-nobbin' with his twin brother—and singin' in that rollin' bass of his, 'Ring out, wild bells,' cause music of any kind seemed to put 'em in a good humor, you'd have smiled; but we weren't in much mood for laughin', as you can guess.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo was not in a good humor, and the perverse fit returned, but Amy, who had virtuously done her duty, kept her temper and pleased everybody, was in a most angelic frame of mind.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)