GOOD HUMOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good humour mean? 

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

1. a cheerful and agreeable mood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD HUMOUR (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 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)

 Context examples 

“He was a brute to you, Traddles,” said I, indignantly; for his good humour made me feel as if I had seen him beaten but yesterday.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Nothing was wanting on Mrs. Palmer's side that constant and friendly good humour could do, to make them feel themselves welcome.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I promised to contribute a water-colour drawing: this put her at once into good humour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The visit passed off altogether in high good humour.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“It keeps him in good humour,” said she, “and I am more obliged to you than I can express.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was no wonder the men were in a good humour now.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Isabella's countenance was once more all smiles and good humour, and James too looked happy again.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers or enter into their feelings or plans with the good humour expected from a guest; and accordingly I told Clerval that I wished to make the tour of Scotland alone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

That he had once, by way of experiment, privately removed a heap of these stones from the place where one of his Yahoos had buried it; whereupon the sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud lamenting brought the whole herd to the place, there miserably howled, then fell to biting and tearing the rest, began to pine away, would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, till he ordered a servant privately to convey the stones into the same hole, and hide them as before; which, when his Yahoo had found, he presently recovered his spirits and good humour, but took good care to remove them to a better hiding place, and has ever since been a very serviceable brute.

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

He was released from the engagement to be mortified and unhappy, till some other pretty girl could attract him into matrimony again, and he might set forward on a second, and, it is to be hoped, more prosperous trial of the state: if duped, to be duped at least with good humour and good luck; while she must withdraw with infinitely stronger feelings to a retirement and reproach which could allow no second spring of hope or character.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)