Synonyms for laugh
læf, lɑflaugh

Wiktionary(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. laughnoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   chuckle, cackle, giggle, snigger, guffaw, cachinnation, snicker, titter, chortle

2. laughverb

   To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

   Synonyms:
   joke, laughing stock

3. laughverb

   Synonyms:
   snicker, cackle, titter, chortle, chuckle, guffaw, giggle, snigger

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. laugh

   Synonyms:
   mock at, ridicule, deride

Princeton's WordNet(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. laugh, laughternoun

   the sound of laughing

   Synonyms:
   laughter, jest, joke, jape, gag

   Antonyms:
   weep, cry

2. laughnoun

   a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing

   "his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision"

   Synonyms:
   laughter, jest, joke, jape, gag

   Antonyms:
   weep, cry

3. joke, gag, laugh, jest, japeverb

   a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

   "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"

   Synonyms:
   prank, muzzle, caper, trick, antic, jest, gag, laughter, joke, jocularity, put-on, jape

   Antonyms:
   cry, weep

4. laugh, express joy, express mirthverb

   produce laughter

   Synonyms:
   express joy, express mirth

   Antonyms:
   weep, cry

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1. • Facial Expression

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1. smile, giggle

   Submitted by anonymous on April 16, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. laughnoun

   Synonyms:
   laughter, CACHINNATION, GUFFAW, ROAR

2. laughverb

   Synonyms:
   SNICKER, GIGGLE, ROAR, TITTER

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1. laughverb

   Synonyms:
   cachinnate, roar, giggle, snicker, titter, chuckle, grin, twitter, cackle, chortle, hawhaw

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1. List of paraphrases for "laugh":

   laughing, ris, laughter, iaugh, kidding, laughs, ri, funny, laughed, joke, itl, fun, smile, giggle, rice, laughlng

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How to use laugh in a sentence?

1. Kenyan Proverb:

   You may laugh at a friend's roof don't laugh at his sleeping accomodation.

2. Amir Fakharian:

   It's been a challenging year, for people to have something to laugh at and make light of during such a horrible year, I'm happy to provide it.

3. Clifford V. Villalon:

   There are five vowels and eight consonants in the words smile, laugh and sob. Five letters for peace and eight letters for serenity.

4. George Santayana:

   The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

5. Peter Dinklage:

   Until you sit down with the brother of the man who you’re playing, who is not Filipino, who’s French, and have a laugh about how crazy the world is in assuming because of how someone looks, they judge of what they must be, and here we are making a movie all about judging how you look, but people who thought they were doing the right thing were doing the exact same thing. We had a few laughs about that.