laugh
laugh Lexical Profile
laugh Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An act or the characteristic sound of laughing, expressing amusement, joy, or scorn.
"She let out a hearty laugh when she heard the punchline of the story."
Something or someone that causes amusement, or an absurd situation treated as a joke.
"The entire bureaucratic process was such a laugh that nobody could take it seriously."
• verb
To make the spontaneous vocal sounds and facial movements that express lively amusement, joy, or sometimes derision.
"The audience began to laugh as soon as the comedian walked onto the stage."
To dismiss, ridicule, or treat someone or something with contemptuous amusement (usually followed by 'at').
"Critics used to laugh at his unconventional theories until experiments proved him right."
• Rhymes for laugh
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English hliehhan, of Proto-Germanic origin and ultimately imitative of the vocal sound of laughter, making it cognate with German lachen and Dutch lachen.