laughing

[laf-ing, lah-fing]

adjective

1. that laughs or is given to laughter.

   a laughing child.

2. uttering sounds like human laughter, as some birds.

3. suggesting laughter by brightness, color, sound, etc..

   a laughing stream; laughing flowers.

4. laughable.

   The increase in crime is no laughing matter.

noun

1. laughter.

Other Word Forms

• laughingly adverb
• unlaughing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of laughing¹

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; laugh, -ing ¹, -ing ²

Example Sentences

An analysis by Industry Leaders Magazine argues that his largely male audience does indeed value his willingness to admit he’s been wrong and his openness to laughing at himself.

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“One minute we were laughing and before we knew it we were having a refreshingly honest conversation about brain fog, hormone changes and hot flashes,” says the 48-year-old Dabrowski, Bospar’s head of strategy and creative.

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In the community centre, a group of mainly elderly people are talking and laughing and being led in a line dance to the song Candy by Cameo.

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In the hours before her death, on the final night of the holidays, Ms Scarff spent the evening laughing and watching television with her mother and her sister.

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Still, I keep making ones starring just me, and laughing hard at my silly little misadventures.

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Related Words

• humorous