| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Humor.[Websters]
2. To have cheered or gladdened. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be spirited or hearted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have indulged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be witted or salted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have minded, ghosted or sensed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be grained or textured. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have jetted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be layered or seamed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have joked, larked or hoaxed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb humor.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (humor) | 1. Put into a good mood.[Wordnet]. 2. To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.[Websters]. 3. To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: humoring, humored, humors, humorist, humorists, humoringly and humoredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"HUMORED" is a common misspelling or typo for: humoured. |
Date "HUMORED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1745. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HUMORED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Indulged; favored.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of humor. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: humor
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 1837 Seconds of Humor | 1837 Seconds of Humor is the first Ray Stevens album. It was published in 1962. (references) | ||
| Aqueous humor | The limpid fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bahá'í humor | '`Abdu'l-Bahá told a Bahá'í to prepare to go to India to teach the faith. So he prepared by studying Indian culture, languages, etc. But at the last minute, the Master changed his mind and decided to send him to America. (references) | ||
| Black humor | The juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| College humor magazines | Most colleges and universities have a humor magazine; since the rise of the internet, some are online only. Some of the college humor magazines have a long and illustrious history; the most significant being the Harvard Lampoon, which gave rise to the National Lampoon in 1970, which in turn was directly or indirectly influential in the rise of an entire generation of comedy, including Saturday Night Live and its various offshoots. (references) | ||
| Croatian humor | Croatian humor bears resemblance to the humor of its surrounding countries, mainly republics of the former Yugoslavia. (references) | ||
| Droll humor | Droll humor is an often dry, witty form of humor that elicits laughs through amusingly odd, sometimes zany behavior or speech. Due to its more subtle nature, this type of humor is not commonly used by comedians, although Steven Wright is an example of one who does use it in combination with other techniques. (references) | ||
| Gallows humor | Gallows humor is humor that makes light of death or other serious matters. It is similar to black comedy but differs in that it is made by the person affected. (references) | ||
| Gargoyle Humor Magazine | Gargoyle Humor Magazine or The Gargoyle is the official student-run humor magazine for the University of Michigan. It has been satirizing both local and national events for over 90 years. The magazine is part of the University's [http://www.pub.umich.edu Student Publications], which also includes the campus newspaper, [http://www.michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily], as well as the yearbook, the [http://www.michiganensian.com Michiganensian]. (references) | ||
| Good humor | 1: A cheerful or pleasant temper or state of mind. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A cheerful and agreeable mood. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Good Humor | Good Humor is an American brand of ice cream once sold from the back of refrigerated ice cream trucks with bells to announce their presence. The "Good Humor Man" was a fixture in popular culture for many decades. At its peak, the company operated 200 trucks in 1961. The company no longer operates the Good Humor truck, and has not since 1976, but independent owners and operators do run trucks. (references) | ||
| Help desk humor | Help desk humor is a genre of humor that arose toward the end of the 20th century in conjunction with the rise of the personal computer. With more common usage of computers came an accompanying rise in calls to help desks for troubleshooting and technical support. (references) | ||
| Humor magazine | A humor magazine is a magazine that is designed deliver humor, satire or funny content to users. (references) | ||
| Humor theory | The humour theory (Am. Eng. humor theory) was a theory of the makeup and workings of the human body adopted by ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers. From Hippocrates onward, the humor theory was the most commonly held view of the human body until the nineteenth century and the understanding of the circulation of blood. (references) | ||
| Ill humor | 1: A disagreeable mood; bad temper. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: An angry and disagreeable mood. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor | But along with these serious works, he also maintains a human quality; one which he lets run free in Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor and its sequel, Asimov Laughs Again. In these two books, he tells a broad variety of jokes-- from puns to ethnic, from limericks to anecdotes. (references) | ||
| Mark Twain Prize for American Humor | The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts annually since 1998. It is named after famous humorist Mark Twain. (references) | ||
| Mark Twain's Library of Humor | Mark Twain's Library of Humor is an 1888 anthology of short humorous works compiled by Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain"), William Dean Howells, and Charles Hopkins Clark. (references) | ||
| Off-color humor | The term off-color humor (also known as dirty jokes or blue humor) is used to describe various "dirty" jokes, prose, poems, and skits that deal with topics that are considered to be in poor taste or overly vulgar by the prevailing morals in a culture. Most commonly labelled as "off-color" are acts concerned with sex, a particular racial group, or gender. Other off-color topics include: violence, particularly domestic abuse; excessive swearing; national superiority or inferiority, dead baby jokes, pedophilic content, and any other topics generally considered impolite or indecent. Generally, the point of off-colour humour is to induce laughter by evoking a feeling of shock and surprise in the comedian's audience. In this way, "blue" humor is related to other forms of postmodern humor, such as the anti-joke. (references) | ||
| Out of humor | Dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind. Syn: Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood; frame; whim; fancy; caprice. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Sense of humor | The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Spectator Humor Magazine | Spectator Humor Magazine is the official student-run humor magazine of Saint John's University, New York. Its purpose was to deliver humor to the student body of St. John's in the form of satire, parody, and other funny stuff. (references) | ||
| Unintentional humor | Unintentional humor is the act of making other people laugh without actually trying to. There are several different kinds of unintentional humor that arise out of various situations. (references) | ||
| Vitreous humor | 1: (Anat.) See the Note under Eye . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: The clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| With humor | In a humorous manner. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Without humor | In a humorless manner. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: humor
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Aqueous humor | Geology | The clear, watery fluid inside the eyeball which helps it keep its shape. (references) | |
| Aqueous humor | Health | Clear, watery fluid that flows between and nourishes the lens and the cornea; secreted by the ciliary processes. (references) | |
| Crystalline humor | Health | The clear, watery fluid which fills the anterior and posterior chambers of the eye. It has a refractive index lower than the crystalline lens, which it surrounds. (references) | |
| Hacker humor | Computing | Hacker humor A distinctive style of shared intellectual humor found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humor having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humor with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus.humor that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favored. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom. (1995-12-18). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Humor [Publication Type] | Health | Jokes and facetiae relating to a subject. (references) | |
| Library humor | Art | Jokes, cartoons, anecdotes, unusual reference questions, witticisms, satire, occupational folklore, etc., having to do with libraries and librarianship. (references) | |
| Vitreous humor | Geology | The vitreous humor is the gelatinous substance that fills the cavity behind the lens of the eye. (references) | |
| Vitreous Humor | Health | The transparent, colorless mass of gel that lies behind the lens and in front of the retina and fills the center of the eyeball. (references) | |
| Vitreous humor | Medicine | The gelatinous, colorless, transparent substance filling the vitreous chamber of the eye; i. e. the space between the crystalline lens, the ciliary body and the retina. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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