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Synonyms for laugh

Grammar : Verb
Spell : laf, lahf
Phonetic Transcription : læf, lɑf

Top 10 synonyms for laugh
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Définition of laugh

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old English (Anglian) hlæhhan, earlier hlihhan, from Proto-Germanic *klakhjanan (cf. Old Norse hlæja, Danish le, Old Frisian hlakkia, Old Saxon hlahhian, Middle Dutch and Dutch lachen, Old High German hlahhan, German lachen, Gothic hlahjan), from PIE *kleg-, of imitative origin (cf. Latin cachinnare "to laugh aloud," Sanskrit kakhati "laughs," Old Church Slavonic chochotati "laugh," Lithuanian klageti "to cackle," Greek kakhazein). Originally with a "hard" -gh- sound, as in Scottish loch; the spelling remained after the pronunciation shifted to "-f."
  • If I coveted nowe to avenge the injuries that you have done me, I myght laughe in my slyve. [John Daus, "Sleidanes Commentaries," 1560]
  • Related: Laughed; laughing.
  • verb expressing amusement, happiness
Example sentences :
  • "They won't go back without me, I reckon," he added, with a laugh.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • Lanning, if I had you at my back I could laugh at the law the rest of our lives!
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • A note of exultation in his laugh, like that in a blackbird's call, alone proclaimed it.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • Grace's laugh sounded a trifle shaky, but it was a laugh nevertheless.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • Why, man, with you at my back I'd laugh at twenty fellows like these.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Why, man, if we've been beyond the law up to this time, we can laugh at the law now.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Let him talk, and hear you laugh when he was funny, and he was satisfied.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Mrs. Roberts exerted herself to laugh with him, albeit she was horror-stricken.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • She joined in his laugh albeit, there was a tender look in her eyes.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • It is a patent declaration: "This is only a play; laugh and we are content."
  • Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke

Antonyms for laugh

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