laughter

laughter
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ hearty, helpless, hysterical, insane, loud, maniacal (esp. AmE), raucous, uncontrollable, uproarious, wild
▪

I heard sounds of raucous laughter upstairs.

▪ happy
▪ infectious
▪

Her infectious laughter had everyone smiling.

▪ nervous
▪ muffled, quiet, silent, soft, suppressed
▪

She was bent over with suppressed laughter.

▪ derisive, mocking
▪ cruel, evil, sinister
▪

Andrea burst into cruel laughter.

▪ drunken
▪

Gerry exploded into more drunken laughter.

▪ canned
▪

the canned laughter of a sitcom

… OF LAUGHTER
▪ bark, hoot, howl, roar, shout, shriek, snort
▪

He gave a sudden bellow of laughter.

▪ fit
▪

Everyone dissolved into fits of laughter when they saw my haircut.

▪ bout (AmE), burst, chorus, gale, guffaw, peal, ripple, round, wave
▪

His suggestion was greeted with peals of laughter.

▪

A ripple of laughter ran around the room.

▪

That comment brought another round of laughter.

VERB + LAUGHTER
▪ burst into, dissolve into, explode with
▪ bellow with, cackle with, hoot with, howl with, roar with, scream with, shriek with, snort with, squeal with
▪ rock with, shake with
▪ draw, elicit, provoke
▪

Hunter's statement drew laughter from the crowd.

▪

The joke provoked laughter from all of them.

▪ choke back (esp. AmE), contain, control, hide, hold back, muffle, smother (esp. AmE), stifle, suppress
▪

Will was no longer able to contain his laughter.


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  • Laughter — Laugh ter, n. [AS. hleahtor; akin to OHG. hlahtar, G. gel[ a]chter, Icel. hl[=a]tr, Dan. latter. See {Laugh}, v. i. ] A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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