Laugh

Noun

 * 1) An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
 * 2) Something that provokes mirth or scorn.

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
 * 3)  To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
 * 4)  To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
 * 5)  To express by, or utter with, laughter.

Adjectives for Laugh
bubbling; wicked; harsh; ironical; taunting; tuneful; carnivorous; hysterical; delicious; silver; horse; self-conscious; childlike; joyous; grating; gasping; throaty; deep; hearty; good-humored; half-desperate; discordant; garnish with—; look reap—; regain—; repose on tie; characteristic; woeful; roguish; irritable; rattling; complacent; derisive; convulsive; hospitable; mingled (plural); sardonic; sonorous; supercilious; astonished; penitent; rueful; angry; sobbing; weak; musical; tittering; bursting; ghostly; scornful; cackling; Incredulous; wild; abrupt; gruesome; childish; simple; gay; subdued; hoarse; low; relieved; inaudible; approving; forced; rippling; mild; familiar; horrid; distracted; funny; hard; little; tremulous; unpleasant; wheezy; triumphant; irritating; crackling; gentle; noisy; spiteful; uneasy; jeering; sarcastic; mocking; eerie; sinister; terrible; unmelodious; hearty; arch; frightful; constrained; blunt; malicious; sweet; vain; ringing; young; enchanting; trifling; suppressed; loud; evil; coarse; chuckling; fierce; jovial; silent; slight; cheery; rapturous; polite; merry; choked; melodious; careless; clumsy; gibing; cold; gurgling; startling; humorous; tinkling; boisterous; wild; impish; fearsome; bitter; drunken; sweet; mirthless; meaningful; fiendish.

Adverbs for Laugh
derisively; significantly; ironically; constrainedly; sheepishly; unquenchably; grimly; idiotically; dramatically; jubilantly; exultantly; reassuringly; gustily; insolently; immoderately; incredulously; gruesomely; tremulously; triumphantly; irritatingly; spitefully; jeering ly; sarcastically; triflingly; jovially; boisterously; humorously; impishly; drunkenly; mirthlessly; fiendishly; gratingly; discordantly; complacently; convulsively; sardonically; sonorously; superciliously; musically; croakingly; gleefully; mordantly; uproariously; jauntily; ruefully.

Synonyms for Laugh

 * cackle, chortle, chuckle, giggle, guffaw, snicker, snigger, titter, cachinnation
 * joke, laughing stock
 * cackle, chortle, chuckle, giggle, guffaw, snicker, snigger, titter

Derived terms
barrel of laughs; belly laugh; bundle of laughs; evil laugh; a laugh a minute; for a laugh; have a laugh; have the last laugh; horselaugh; laughathon; laughless; laughlike; laughline; laugh machine; laughsome; laugh track; laughworthy; laughy; liquid laugh; belly-laugh; burst out laughing; don't make me laugh; laughable; laugh all the way to the bank; laugh away; laugh down; laugher; laughing; laugh in someone's face; laugh in the sleeve; laugh like a drain; laugh like a hyena; laugh off; laugh one out of; laugh one's head off; laugh out, laugh out loud; laugh out of the other corner of the mouth; laugh out of the other side of the mouth; laugh to scorn; laugh track; canned laughter; LOL; outlaugh; unlaugh;

Thesaurus
aphonogelia; comedy; gelotology; funny; ha ha; laughster, laughter, chuckle, convulsion, crack up, crow, delight, deny, deride, die with delight, dirty joke, dirty story, dismiss, disregard, double entendre, ethnic joke, feel happy, fit of laughter, frolic, fun, funny story, gag, gales of laughter, gambol, giggle, glow, go into convulsions, go into hysterics, go into raptures, good one, good story, grin, guffaw, ha-ha, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hilarity, ho-ho, hoot, horselaugh, howler, ignore, jape, jeer at, jest, jestbook, joke, joy, lampoon, laugh at, laugh it up, laugh outright, laughing, laughter, lilt, nearly die laughing, outburst of laughter, panic, parody, pasquil, pasquinade, peal of laughter, play, point, poke fun at, pooh-pooh, purr, radiate cheer, reject, rib tickler, ridicule, riot, risibility, roar, roar of laughter, roar with laughter, roast, romp, satirize, scoff at, scorn, scream, shake like jelly, shake with laughter, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, shrug off, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, simper, sing, skip, smile, smirk, snicker, snigger, sniggle, snort, sparkle, split, split with laughter, sport, spurn, story, take great satisfaction, taunt, tease, tee-hee, titter, tread on air, visual joke, wheeze, whistle, whoop, wide berth, wow, yarn, yuck, yuk-yuk, Homeric laughter, be in heaven, be in stitches, be pleased, beam, belittle, belly laugh, blue story, boff, boffola, break up, brush aside, burst into laughter, burst of laughter, burst out, burst out laughing, burst with laughter, bust a gut, cachinnate, cachinnation, cackle, caper, caracole, chirp, chirrup, chortle.

Etymology
From hlæhhan:, hlihhan:, hliehhan:, from  (compare West Frisian laitsje:, Dutch/German lachen:, Danish le:), from  (compare Welsh cloch: 'bell', Latin glōciare: 'to cluck', Old Church Slavonic undefined: 'laughter, noise', Ancient Greek undefined: 'to cluck').

Pronunciation

 * or, or {{SAMPA|/l{f/}}
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Noun

 * Albanian: qeshje
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 笑聲, 笑声,
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: צחוק
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 笑い (warai)
 * Korean: 웃음소리, 웃음소리
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: smiekli
 * Lithuanian: juokas
 * Macedonian: смеа
 * Malayalam: ചിരി, പൊട്ടിച്ചിരി
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, râset
 * Russian: смех (smex)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Albanian: qeshje
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Japanese: 笑い物 (waraimono)


 * Latin: lūdibrium
 * Norwegian: vits
 * Russian: смех (smex), умора (umóra)

Verb

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ضحك
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: barre egin
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 發笑, 发笑
 * Czech: se
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: naerda
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greenlandic:, (trans.)
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hindi: हँसना / हंसना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 笑う


 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: smieties
 * Lithuanian: juoktis
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: പൊട്ടിച്ചിരിക്കുക, അട്ടഹസിക്കുക
 * Norwegian:, skratte
 * Occitan: rire
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian: смеяться, хохотать
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: skratta
 * Tajik:
 * Urdu: ہنسنا
 * West Frisian:


 * Albanian: gazmor
 * Czech: se
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Norwegian:


 * Albanian: tall, përqesh
 * Armenian:
 * Czech: se
 * Danish: le ad, gøre sig lystig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: rire, moquer
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: 笑い飛ばす (warai tobasu)
 * Latin:


 * Macedonian: се потсмева, исмејува
 * Malayalam: പരിഹസിക്കുക
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: wyśmiewać, obśmiewać
 * Portuguese:, tirrar sarro, caçoar, escarnecer
 * Russian: смеяться, насмехаться
 * Slovene: zasmehovati
 * Spanish: reírse de
 * Swedish: skratta


 * Albanian: përqesh
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,


 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: 一笑に付す (isshō ni fusu)
 * Macedonian: засмева


 * Albanian: qeshem
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic:
 * Norwegian:

Anagrams

 * Aghul