n. 1 funniness, comedy, wit, facetiousness, ludicrousness, drollery, jocoseness or jocosity, jocularity, waggishness, raillery, banter One writer defined humour as 'the happy compound of pathos and playfulness', another referred to the sense of humour as a 'modulating and restraining balance-wheel' 2 comedy, farce, jokes, jests, witticisms, wit, Slang wisecracks, gags Milton was scarcely known as a writer of humour 3 mood, frame of mind, temper; spirit(s); disposition, nature, temperament She is in a bad humour till after breakfast
v. 4 soothe, gratify, placate, please, mollify, indulge, appease, pamper, cosset, coddle, mollycoddle, jolly, baby, spoil They are trying to humour him because he's in a bad mood