laughable
such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.
Origin of laughable
1synonym study For laughable
Other words for laughable
Opposites for laughable
Other words from laughable
- laugh·a·ble·ness, noun
- laugh·a·bly, adverb
Words Nearby laughable
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How to use laughable in a sentence
Now it’s not so laughable to imagine lab-grown meat in your local grocery or restaurant.
No Trees Harmed: MIT Aims to One Day Grow Your Kitchen Table in a Lab | Jason Dorrier | January 24, 2021 | Singularity HubCyberpunk 2077 and the constellation of controversy orbiting it—at nearly every level of its making—is almost laughable.
Cutting back further for bad weather would be laughable if it weren’t so awful an idea.
New Jersey school district pledges to protect at least one ritual from pandemic upheaval: The snow day | Kim Bellware | October 29, 2020 | Washington PostSome prominent Silicon Valley figures praised it, while critics argued it was "absolutely laughable" to believe that a company could keep politics out of the workplace.
Coinbase doubles down on anti-politics stance with exit package offer | Timothy B. Lee | September 30, 2020 | Ars TechnicaAfter dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared election victory with a laughable 80 percent of the vote against popular challenger Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Belarusians took to the streets.
That Huckabee is mentioned in the same sentence with other aspiring conservative governors, especially Bobby Jindal, is laughable.
All this would be laughable if it weren't for the grim statistics.
But Italians, who generally holiday much of August, find such a short holiday almost laughable.
Twenty years ago it would have been laughable to believe that English provincial cuisine could match French provincial cuisine.
A British Start to the Tour de France Forces the English to Wonder: What Does Being English Mean Anymore? | Clive Irving | July 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis descriptions of Sen. Marco Rubio range from laughable to slanderous.
The Messy, Sordid Story of Jim Greer, Charlie Crist’s Man to a Fault | Rick Wilson | June 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis letters are simply laughable, especially his characters of contemporaries.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.It was a fact that Amy Drew often saw humor where her chum 98 could not spy anything in the least laughable.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseThe emperor issues a newspaper in his own palace, which is in the highest degree absurd and laughable.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferAn involuntary smile parted his lips each time he looked at the shop, where, in fact, there were some laughable details.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket | Honore de BalzacI can never forget a laughable scene which was enacted on Pennsylvania avenue by Company B while on this march.
A Raw Recruit's War Experiences | Ansel D. Nickerson
British Dictionary definitions for laughable
/ (ˈlɑːfəbəl) /
producing scorn; ludicrous: he offered me a laughable sum for the picture
arousing laughter
Derived forms of laughable
- laughableness, noun
- laughably, adverb
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