laugh
laugh is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
- intransitive verb. Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
- transitive verb. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
- transitive verb. To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out.
- noun. An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.
- noun. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
"he told a very funny joke"
"he knows a million gags"
- noun. a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing
"his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision"
- noun. the sound of laughing
- verb. produce laughter
Synonyms
gag, jape, jest, joke, laughter
Common word forms
laughs, laughed, laugher, laughful, laughing, laughable
Words from these letters
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