laugh off
verb
laughed off; laughing off; laughs off
transitive verb
: to minimize by treating as amusingly or absurdly trivial
Word History
First Known Use
1676, in the meaning defined above
laughing off
verb
as in shrugging off
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- shrugging off
- playing down
- minimizing
- belittling
- undervaluing
- underrating
- discounting
- poohing
- diminishing
- deprecating
- pooh-poohing
- regretting
- mourning
- lamenting
- bemoaning
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- blowing
- boasting
- swaggering
- bragging
- gasconading
- crowing
- vaunting
- puffing
- bulling
- vaporing
- blustering
- haranguing
- priding
