Antonyms for Laughter
ˈlæf tər, ˈlɑf-laugh·ter

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1. laughter

   Antonyms:
   weeping, tears, mourning, sorrow, admiration, veneration, respect, whimper, whine

   Synonyms:
   merriment, glee, derision, ridicule, cachinnation, contempt

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1. laugh, laughternoun

   the sound of laughing

   Synonyms:
   laughter, jest, laugh, joke, jape, gag

2. laughternoun

   the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn

   "he enjoyed the laughter of the crowd"

   Synonyms:
   laugh

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1. laughternoun

   Synonyms:
   mirth, laugh, cachinnation, giggle, snicker, roar, cackle, grin, chortle, chuckle, guffaw, titter

   Associated words:
   risible, risibles, risibility, risorial, abderian, sardonic, geloscopy, gelastic

How to use Laughter in a sentence?

1. George Takei:

   There were 6.5 acres covered with barracks, barbwire fence, sentry towers -- I recognize them, i remembered a stray dog that we adopted who would crawl into the crawl space and peer out from under it. Or the mess hall and the noise and the laughter and so forth.

2. Jerry Seinfeld:

   It's just hard to be funny, everybody kind of thinks they're funny or wants to be funny, but even the people that are great at being funny aren't funny a lot of the time because it's just a tricky, subtle thing that evokes that response of laughter [from an audience].

3. Peter Ustinov:

   Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

4. Eugene Lam:

   Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

5. Henry Elliot:

   If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.

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