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[ laf -uh -buh l, lah -fuh - ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈlæf ə bəl, ˈlɑ fə- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.
Origin of laughable First recorded in 1590–1600; laugh + -able
SYNONYMS FOR laughable humorous, droll, comical, farcical, ridiculous; risible.
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ANTONYMS FOR laughable sad, melancholy.
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synonym study for laughable See funny1 .
OTHER WORDS FROM laughable laugh·a·ble·ness, noun laugh·a·bly, adverb Words nearby laughable lauds, Laue, Laue diagram, Lauenburg, laugh, laughable , laugh all the way to the bank, laugh and the world laughs with you, Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone, laugh at, laugh away
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Example sentences from the Web for laughable That Huckabee is mentioned in the same sentence with other aspiring conservative governors, especially Bobby Jindal, is laughable .
Why This Liberal Hearts Huckabee | Sally Kohn| January 6, 2015| DAILY BEAST
Every time a conservative pol gets caught in a racial mess, we hear the same weary and laughable tune.
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All this would be laughable if it weren't for the grim statistics.
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Twenty years ago it would have been laughable to believe that English provincial cuisine could match French provincial cuisine.
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His descriptions of Sen. Marco Rubio range from laughable to slanderous.
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And then he gave us a perfect and laughable description of what must be some creature of the monkey tribe.
Adventures in New Guinea | James Chalmers
It was one of those feeble jokes at which everybody laughs because nothing else is laughable about the situation.
Space Viking | Henry Beam Piper
Then and forever ended the old system of courtship, which seems so laughable and even incredible today.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays | Richard Le Gallienne
This was eccentric perhaps, considering the occasion, but not laughable .
Seen and Unseen | E. Katharine Bates
It is laughable to read of those days when men were drugged with pills, boluses and powders.
Caesar's Column | Ignatius Donnelly
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British Dictionary definitions for laughable adjective producing scorn; ludicrous he offered me a laughable sum for the picture
arousing laughter
Derived forms of laughable laughableness , noun laughably , adverb Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to laughable funny, fantastic, farcical, humorous, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous, absurd, hilarious, bizarre, nonsensical, comical, amusing, asinine, camp, comic, derisive, droll, eccentric, entertaining