Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing or deserving laughter or derision.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exciting or fitted to excite laughter: as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.
- Synonyms Ridiculous, Comical, etc. See
ludicrous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fitted to excite laughter
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Worthless ; worthy ofcontempt orderision . - adjective Fitted to excite
laughter ;humorous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incongruous;inviting ridicule
- adjective arousing or provoking laughter
Etymologies
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Examples
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But what we spoke of as laughable in the whole affair is, that Master Pope neither had then read one line of Pindar, nor ever read one line of Pindar: and reason good; for at that time he could not read the simple Homeric Greek; while the Greek of Pindar exceeds all other Greek in difficulty, excepting, perhaps, a few amongst the tragic choruses, which are difficult for the very same reason -- lyric abruptness, lyric involution, and lyric obscurity of transition.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Most laughable is the authors point that these "elite" "Euro-American" cities have had that attitude since the American Revolution.
Euro-America, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And laughable is exactly what it would be to him because his show is getting a ton of free press.
Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010
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And laughable is exactly what it would be to him because his show is getting a ton of free press.
Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010
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And laughable is exactly what it would be to him because his show is getting a ton of free press.
Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010
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What 's laughable is that even those asking the government to leave their healthcare alone, are on medicare.!!!
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The typical Saturday Nightmares would feature a movie of varying quality (some were legitimately terrifying, while others were just plain laughable).
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And laughable is exactly what it would be to him because his show is getting a ton of free press.
Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010
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Calling chemical rockets laughable is a laughable statement.
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And laughable is exactly what it would be to him because his show is getting a ton of free press.
Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010
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