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Synonyms for laugh
læf, lɑflaugh
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Wiktionary
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, chortlelaughverb
To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
Synonyms:
joke, laughing stocklaughverb
Synonyms:
snicker, cackle, titter, chortle, chuckle, guffaw, giggle, snigger
Princeton's WordNet
laugh, laughternoun
the sound of laughing
laughnoun
a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing
"his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision"
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, japelaugh, express joy, express mirthverb
produce laughter
Synonyms:
express joy, express mirth
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Editors Contribution
smile, giggle
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#731 | fun | |
#2347 | funny | |
#3534 | rice | |
#4842 | smile | |
#4844 | ri | |
#6263 | laugh | |
#6675 | joke | |
#7167 | trick | |
#9034 | laughing | |
#11757 | laughed | |
#11977 | laughter | |
#12429 | gag | |
#14265 | laughs | |
#14981 | kidding | |
#24123 | ris | |
#28571 | jest | |
#29414 | prank | |
#31457 | ridicule | |
#31534 | giggle | |
#33249 | muzzle | |
#34456 | chuckle | |
#40207 | caper | |
#45974 | itl | |
#73064 | snicker | |
#79626 | antic | |
#103315 | deride | |
#118874 | cackle | |
#135022 | chortle | |
#143260 | titter | |
#155569 | guffaw | |
#184309 | snigger | |
#201381 | jape | |
#233386 | jocularity |
How to use laugh in a sentence?
You may laugh at a friend's roof don't laugh at his sleeping accomodation.
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.
There are five vowels and eight consonants in the words smile, laugh and sob. Five letters for peace and eight letters for serenity.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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.
Translations for laugh
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- lagAfrikaans
- ضحكArabic
- gülməkAzerbaijani
- смяя́ццаBelarusian
- сме́я сеBulgarian
- riure's de, riureCatalan, Valencian
- smát, posmívatCzech
- смиꙗтиOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- chwerthinWelsh
- lystig, latter, le, grine, le ad, sig, smile, over, gøreDanish
- lachen, auslachenGerman
- γελάω, γέλιοGreek
- ridi, ridoEsperanto
- risa, reír, reírseSpanish
- naerda, naerEstonian
- barre egin, barreBasque
- خندیدنPersian
- nauraa, nauru, iloita, naurattaa, pilkata, naurunaihe, vitsiFinnish
- flenna, grína, læaFaroese
- rire, moquerFrench
- laitsjeWestern Frisian
- déan gáire, gáir, gáireIrish
- dèan gàireScottish Gaelic
- rirGalician
- צחוקHebrew
- हँसना, हंसनाHindi
- nevetHungarian
- ծիծաղել, ծիծաղArmenian
- riderInterlingua
- tertawaIndonesian
- ridarIdo
- hlæja, hláturIcelandic
- risata, ridere, risoItalian
- 笑う, 笑い飛ばす, 一笑に付す, 笑い, 笑い物Japanese
- გაცინება, სიცილიGeorgian
- күлуKazakh
- illarpoq, illaatigaaKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- សំណើច, សើចKhmer
- 웃다, 웃음, 웃음소리Korean
- پێکهنینKurdish
- күлүүKyrgyz
- rīsus, lūdibrium, rideoLatin
- laachen, LaachLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ສວນ, ຫົວLao
- juoktis, juokasLithuanian
- smieties, smiet, smiekliLatvian
- се смее, засмева, се потсмева, исмејува, смеаMacedonian
- ചിരി, അട്ടഹസിക്കുക, പൊട്ടിച്ചിരിക്കുക, പരിഹസിക്കുക, പൊട്ടിച്ചിരിMalayalam
- инээхMongolian
- हसनेMarathi
- gelak, tawa, ketawaMalay
- ရယ်Burmese
- lach, lachen, uitlachenDutch
- skratte, le, latter, vits, låttNorwegian
- rider, arríder, rire, ris, risadaOccitan
- śmiech, śmiać się, wyśmiewać, obśmiewaćPolish
- rir, caçoar, zoar, tirar sarro, escarnecer, riso, risadaPortuguese
- riem, rier, rir, reir, riöz, riezRomansh
- râs, râset, râdeRomanian
- смея́ться, хохота́ть, насмеха́ться, смех, умо́раRussian
- rizu, risu, ridere, risulare, arriere, riere, errisu, arrisuSardinian
- смејати, smijati, смијати, smejati, smijȇhSerbo-Croatian
- හිනා වෙනවාSinhala, Sinhalese
- smiať saSlovak
- smeh, zasmehovati, smejati seSlovene
- qosolSomali
- tall, qeshem, qesh, gazmor, përqesh, qeshjeAlbanian
- skratta, skrattSwedish
- хандиданTajik
- ขำThai
- gülmekTurkmen
- gülmekTurkish
- көлергәTatar
- смія́тисяUkrainian
- ہنسناUrdu
- kulmoqUzbek
- cườiVietnamese
- smilönVolapük
- rireWalloon
- געלעכטער, צעלאַכן, לאַכןYiddish
- 笑Chinese
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