Sense Of Humor

Definition: Sense Of Humor

Sense Of Humor

Noun

1. The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor;" "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor".

Synonyms: Sense Of Humor

Synonyms: humor (n), humour (n), sense of humour (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sense Of Humor

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Wit	Noun: wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sense Of Humor

English words defined with "sense of humor": humor, humour ♦ Marx Brothers ♦ sense of humour, strange ♦ The five wits ♦ unusual. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sense of humor": exercise, left as an ♦ JESTER ♦ kremvax ♦ Nose ♦ sig quote. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sense Of Humor

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I just wanted to see if she had a sense of humor. (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire) Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have to go with breast size. (So I Married an Axe Murderer; writing credit: Robbie Fox.) The Kremlin's got a hell of a sense of humor. (Rambo III; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone) I guess I'm just going to have to develop a sense of humor, huh? (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Maybe I left my sense of humor in my other suit. (Sweet Smell of Success; writing credit: Ernest Lehman; Clifford Odets)
Clever	Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth: a sense of humor. (references; author: unknown) Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sense Of Humor

Domain	Title
Books	Kids Who Laugh : How to Develop Your Child's Sense of Humor (reference) Men! Proof That God Has a Sense of Humor 2003 Calendar (reference) No Sense of Humor (Silhouette Desire, No 225) (reference) Queer Sense of Humor (reference) Statistics With a Sense of Humor (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Sense of Humor (reference) Value of a Good Sense of Humor (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Sense Of Humor

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A hydrodynamically designed towed instrument package with a sense of humor.Credit: Fisheries.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Sense Of Humor

Author	Quotation
Francis Bacon	Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Henry Ward Beecher	A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Oscar Wilde	Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
Will Rogers	God Bless America for a sense of humor.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sense Of Humor

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears. The widow-queen of Portugal Had an audacious jester Who entered the confessional Disguised, and there confessed her. "Father," she said, "thine ear bend down -- My sins are more than scarlet: I love my fool -- blaspheming clown, And common, base-born varlet." "Daughter," the mimic priest replied, "That sin, indeed, is awful: The church's pardon is denied To love that is unlawful. "But since thy stubborn heart will be For him forever pleading, Thou'dst better make him, by decree, A man of birth and breeding." She made the fool a duke, in hope With Heaven's taboo to palter; Then told a priest, who told the Pope, Who damned her from the altar! Barel Dort
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Sense Of Humor

Expressions using "sense of humor": fine sense of humor ♦ have no sense of humor. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sense Of Humor

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sense of humor	34
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Modern Translations: Sense Of Humor

Language		Translations for "sense of humor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ndjenjë e humorit (sense of humour). (various references)

Arabic		‏حس ظريف طبيعي (sense of humour). (various references)

Bulgarian		чувство за хумор (funny bone, humor, humour, sense of humour). (various references)

Hungarian		humorérzék (sense of humour). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ユーモアの感覚 (a sense of humor, Eurailpass, EURATOM, eureka, euro, Euro-, Eurobank, Eurocommunism, Eurocrat, Eurocurrency, Eurodollar, Euromoney, Euronet, European Atomic Energy Community, europium, Europort, Eurosocialism, Eurovision, humoresque, humorist, humorous, Israel, Judea, Utah). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ユーモアのか�"かく (a sense of humor). (various references)

Pig Latin		ensesay ofay umorhay

Portuguese		senso de humor (risibilities). (various references)

Romanian		simţ fin al umorului (fine sense of humor, fine sense of humour). (various references)

Russian		чувство юмора (sense of humour). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		smisao za humor (sense of humour, wit). (various references)

Swedish		sinne för humor (sense of humour). (various references)

Turkish		espri anlayışı (humor, humour, sense of humour), şakadan anlama (sense of humour). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sense Of Humor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-u"
	-3 letters: foursomes.
	-4 letters: enormous, foursome, freshens, freshmen, honorees, hormones, horsemen, housemen, moorhens, neuroses, onrushes, rehouses, senhores, someones, sunroofs, sunrooms, unhorses, unmeshes.
	-5 letters: enserfs, ensures, foremen, frenums, freshen, freshes, honoree, honours, hoofers, hormone, housers, moorhen, moreens, moshers, mousers, mushers, noosers, noshers, onerous, onshore, refuses, rehouse, reshoes, reshone, resumes, rushees, senhors, senores, sermons, someone, sooners, sunroof.
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