Word Meanings - LAUGHABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LAUGHABLE)
- Droll
- Whimsical
- comical
- odd
- queer
- amusing
- laughable
- funny
- comic
- fantastic
- farcical
- Funny
- Sportive
- droll
- humorous
- jocose
- ridiculous
- ludicrous
- diverting
- Ludicrous
- Ridiculous
- Laughable
- contemptible
- preposterous
- absurd
- grotesque
- trifling
- trivial
Related words: (words related to LAUGHABLE)
- TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - FANTASTIC
1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic - FANTASTICALITY
Fantastically. - QUEERISH
Rather queer; somewhat singular. - COMICAL
1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous; - DROLLIST
A droll. Glanvill. - JOCOSE
Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn. - ABSURDNESS
Absurdity. - DROLLISH
Somewhat droll. Sterne. - LAUGHABLE
Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv. - AMUSE
1. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could - HUMOROUSLY
1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily. - DIVERTING
Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n. - SPORTIVE
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n. - CONTEMPTIBLENESS
The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised. - FANTASTICLY
Fantastically. - DROLL
Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical. - TRIVIALNESS
Quality or state of being trivial. - TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle. - COMICRY
The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. H. Giles. - RAMUSCULE
A small ramus, or branch. - HIPPOPOTAMUS
A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, - INDIVERTIBLE
Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb. - CAMUS
See CAMIS