Antonyms for laughable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : laf-uh-buhl, lah-fuh-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlæf ə bəl, ˈlɑ fə-


Definition of laughable

Origin :
  • 1590s, from laugh (v.) + -able. Related: Laughably.
  • adj easily made fun of
Example sentences :
  • They laugh at it here, and of course I should not wish to do what is laughable.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • For any laws but those which men make for themselves, are laughable.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I agree with you that it's laughable enough, but I have not the spirit to laugh.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • And I assure you that, seen as I saw it with my bodily eyes, it was anything but laughable.
  • Extract from : « Falk » by Joseph Conrad
  • He acquitted himself of the task, with a most laughable attention.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry » by Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
  • The sight is one of the most laughable that can be witnessed.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 » by Various
  • Such ignorance would be laughable if it were not to be pitied.
  • Extract from : « The Burgess Animal Book for Children » by Thornton W. Burgess
  • But the game of the "Man in the Chair," is one of the most laughable.
  • Extract from : « The Stoker's Catechism » by W. J. Connor
  • This head-gear, surmounting a small black face, is laughable in the extreme.
  • Extract from : « In Eastern Seas » by J. J. Smith
  • She seemed to him absurd in her humiliation, and laughable in her devotion.
  • Extract from : « Germinie Lacerteux » by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

Synonyms for laughable

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