Humour Sense Full People French Noun ˈhjuːmə(R ˈhjuːmər

• it was a story full of gentle humour.
• she ignored his feeble attempt at humour.
• they failed to see the humour of the situation.
• i can't stand people with no sense of humour.

humour

1. the quality in something that makes it funny; the ability to laugh at things that are funny
• SEE ALSO gallows humour
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/gallows-humour
• It was a story full of gentle humour.
• She ignored his feeble attempt at humour.
• They failed to see the humour of the situation.
• I can't stand people with no sense of humour.
• to have a dry/keen/wicked/wry sense of humour
• She smiled with a rare flash of humour.
• She has her very own brand of humour.
• The film is only funny if you appreciate French humour (= things that cause French people to laugh).

Extra Examples

• Whatever you do, don’t lose your sense of humour.
• Her speech was serious, but not without the occasional touch of humour.
• His colleagues soon got fed up with his schoolboy humour.
• The movie uses humour to make its points.
• The stories are full of humour.
• This movie takes crude gross-out humour to a new low.
• With wry humour, they laugh at their misfortunes.
• a television sitcom with its own peculiar brand of humour
• He has a good sense of humour.
2. the state of your feelings or mind at a particular time
• SEE ALSO good humour
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/good-humour
• to be in the best of humours
• The meeting dissolved in ill humour.
• to be out of humour (= in a bad mood)
• The remarks were made in good humour.
3. one of the four liquids that were thought in the past to be in a person’s body and to influence health and character
• SEE ALSO aqueous humour
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/aqueous-humour

Word Origin

• Middle English: via Old French from Latin humor ‘moisture’, from humere ‘be moist’. The original sense was ‘bodily fluid’ (surviving in aqueous humour and vitreous humour); it was used specifically for any of the cardinal humours (sense (3)), which led to the sense ‘mental disposition’ (thought to be caused by the relative proportions of the humours). This led, in the 16th cent., to the senses ‘mood’ (sense (2)) and ‘whim’, hence to humour someone ‘to indulge a person's whim’. Sense (1) dates from the late 16th cent.