laugh
laughed; laughing; laughs
To let out a chuckle or giggle is to laugh: people laugh when something is funny.
To chortle, cackle, guffaw, or titter is to laugh. The job of a comedian is to make people laugh. Often people laugh at things that aren't supposed to be funny, and people also laugh to be polite. If something is silly, you can say "That's a laugh!" If you had fun at a party, you can say "Thanks for the laughs." Everybody's laugh sounds a little different. It would be a shame if your laugh sounded like Elmer Fudd.
Definitions of laugh
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produce laughter
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synonyms:
express joy, express mirth
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Antonyms:
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cry, weep
shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
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cry
bring into a particular state by crying
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bray
laugh loudly and harshly
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bellylaugh
laugh a deep, hearty laugh
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howl, roar
laugh unrestrainedly and heartily
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snicker, snigger
laugh quietly
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giggle, titter
laugh nervously
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break up, crack up
laugh unrestrainedly
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cackle
emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
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guffaw, laugh loudly
laugh boisterously
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chortle, chuckle, laugh softly
laugh quietly or with restraint
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convulse
be overcome with laughter
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cachinnate
laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way
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type of:
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express emotion, express feelings
give verbal or other expression to one's feelings
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cry, weep
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the sound of laughing
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synonyms:
laughter
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cachinnation
loud convulsive laughter
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cackle
a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
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chortle, chuckle
a soft partly suppressed laugh
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giggle
a foolish or nervous laugh
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belly laugh, guffaw
a burst of deep loud hearty laughter
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ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw, horselaugh
a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing
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snicker, snigger, snort
a disrespectful laugh
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titter
a nervous restrained laugh
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utterance, vocalization
the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
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a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing“his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision”
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type of:
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facial expression, facial gesture
a gesture executed with the facial muscles
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facial expression, facial gesture
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a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter“thanks for the laugh”
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belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow
a joke that seems extremely funny
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blue joke, blue story, dirty joke, dirty story
an indelicate joke
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ethnic joke
a joke at the expense of some ethnic group
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funny, funny remark, funny story, good story
an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line)
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in-joke
a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people
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one-liner
a one-line joke
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shaggy dog story
a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness
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sick joke
a joke in bad taste
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sight gag, visual joke
a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie)
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