laugh

Plural: laughs

Noun

• the sound of laughing
• a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing
  • "his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision"
• a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
  • "thanks for the laugh"
  • "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"
• An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
• Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
• A fun person.

Verb

Verb Forms: laughed, laughing, laughs

• To make sounds expressing amusement or mirth.
• produce laughter
• To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
• To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
• To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
• To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
• To express by, or utter with, laughter.

Examples

• a good laugh
• Don't laugh at my new hat, man!
• His deep laughs boomed through the room.
• My opponent could only LAUGH in disbelief when I played ’QUIXOTIC’ for 100 points.
• There were many laughing children running on the school grounds.
• Your new hat's an absolute laugh, dude.

Synonyms

express joy, express mirth, gag, jape, jest, joke, laughter, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, giggle, guffaw, laugh, laughing stock, snicker, snigger, titter

Antonyms

cry, weep

Related Words

LOL, ROTFL, abderian, bawdy, comedy, funny, funny ha-ha, gelastic, gelotology, ha ha, ha-ha, haha, haw-haw, hawhaw, he-he, hehe, ho-ho, hoho, humorous, jocularity, joke, laughingstock, laughster, laughter, mirth, ridicule, smile, tee hee, tee hee hee