sense of humour
Finds things funny
A sense of humour is the ability to perceive, appreciate, or create what's funny.
Someone with a good sense of humour laughs easily and makes others laugh.
Someone with no sense of humour takes everything seriously: Can't you take a joke? Where's your sense of humour?
People often cite it as an attractive quality in potential partners.
The British spelling uses -our; Americans write humor.
- humouristWriter of amusing works
- absurdist humorComedy rooted in meaninglessness
- tongue in cheekHumorously insincere manner
- entertainmentAgreeable diversion of attention
- playfulnessLighthearted, frisky spirit
good sport · class clown · self-deprecation · incongruity · dark humor · comic relief · inside joke · observational humor · comic timing · funny bone · dry humor · fun · ironist · wit · quick wit · wordplay · laughter · witticism
sense of humourhumorlessness
Lack of comedic sense
mirthlessness · solemnity · seriousness · dourness · grimness
sense of humourtin ear
Inability to discern pitch
obtuseness · tone-deafness · priggishness · prudishness · pedantry
sense, sensitive, humorous, senses, sensation, sensible, sensational, sensor, sensory