laughable English

Meaning laughable meaning

What does laughable mean?

laughable

— adjective (= absurd, cockeyed, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous) incongruous;inviting ridicule the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework that's a cockeyed idea ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer a contribution so small as to be laughable it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous

— adjective (= amusing, comic, comical, funny, mirthful, risible) arousing or provoking laughter an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls an amusing fellow a comic hat a comical look of surprise funny stories that made everybody laugh a very funny writer it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much a mirthful experience risible courtroom antics

Synonyms laughable synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as laughable?

laughable English » English

ridiculous

ludicrous

funny

comical

amusing

risible

absurd

comic

humorous

derisory

laughing

humourous

farcical

preposterous

nonsensical

mirthful

ironical

ironic

idiotic

derisive

cockeyed

witty

strange

silly

ridonkulous

queer

pitiful

pappyshow

mirth-provoking

merry

lightsome

lighthearted

light-hearted

joking

irrational

foolish

facetious

droll

diverting

contemptible

cockamamy

clownish

camp

amusive

absurdity

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Topics laughable topics

What do people use laughable to talk about?

Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Laugh

• What words describe someone or something that causes people to laugh?
  laughable amusing comic comical absurd facetious humor humorous sense of humor

Social behavior Social activity

Humor

• What words describe something that is humorous?
  humorous funny hilarious hysterical silly comical ludicrous amusing comic absurd facetious droll laughable zany

Examples laughable examples

How do I use laughable in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I am not myself anymore. I've become a laughable caricature of my deepest self.

I bought an autographed collected edition of the works of Tom Miller for a laughable two hundred euros at a flea market. Oh, I robbed that clueless seller! I should confess in church!

Laughter is the only cure against vanity, and vanity is the only laughable fault.

You're going to teach me? That's laughable!

Everything like this can seem very laughable in the West. However, in the East it caused battles lasting a century.

Movie subtitles

You know, the fact you'd even say that is laughable.

Mr. Hornblower, if you build. you know, it's laughable.

This is all too laughable to be anything else.

I have to do something, no matter how small and laughable, to defend what's left of my personal freedom.

Laughable prices!

Would you have such laughable chatter spreading all over Edo?

That's laughable.

Laughable.

If the image wasn't so ugly, it'd be laughable.

That's even more laughable than I thought.

The order is laughable.

After what you've done, what I'm asking of you is laughable. Sign it!

For me it's laughable.

That is laughable.

Of course it is. This is all too laughable to be anything else.

Laughable, isn't it?

I know it's laughable.

Laughable!

You said it was laughable, so I thought it was an order.

As a matter of fact the whole thing is becoming so ridiculous, it's laughable.

That's laughable!

I found the mission questionable, and the profit laughable.

It would have seemed laughable, inconceivable in a socialist future, or even in a neo-capitalist future.

It's laughable in my situation.

An anonymous individual of this sort has for some time been expounding the latest trendy ideas in a most appropriate forum: the weekly magazine of the laughable foot soldiers of Mitterand's electoral constituency.

It's so pitiful that it's laughable.

I've told you before, Your thought processes Are so transparent, they're laughable.

He turned out to be the most laughable person.

It was all so laughable.

She'll see his abysmal putting and his laughable game off the tee and cast him aside like a spilt beverage.

In the 1950s, the government started an underfunded agency with the laughable purpose of establishing contact with a race not of this planet.

News and current affairs

Steel production was promoted by primitive backyard furnaces that industry analysts would consider laughable, but people who understood that had no influence in China then.

The idea would be laughable if it were not so tragic.

This is laughable.

The idea that a big government-guaranteed global bank is needed to fill holes in private capital markets is laughable nowadays.

It was no longer laughable to say that he could be the Republican nominee.

Such brazen corruption would be laughable if its effects were not so debilitating to the country.