laugh

(lăf, läf)

1. To express certain emotions, especially mirth or delight, by a series of spontaneous, usually unarticulated sounds often accompanied by corresponding facial and bodily movements.
2. To show or feel amusement or good humor: an experience we would laugh about later on.
3. a. To feel or express derision or contempt; mock: I had to laugh when I saw who my opponent was.
   b. To feel a triumphant or exultant sense of well-being: You won't be laughing when the truth comes out.
4. To produce sounds resembling laughter: parrots laughing and chattering in the trees.

1. To affect or influence by laughter: laughed the speaker off the stage; laughed the proposal down.
2. To say with a laugh: He laughed his delight at the victory.

1. a. The act of laughing.
   b. The sound of laughing; laughter.
2. Informal Something amusing, absurd, or contemptible; a joke: The solution they recommended was a laugh.
3. Informal Fun; amusement. Often used in the plural: went along just for laughs.

Related Forms:

• laughˈer noun

• laughˈing·ly adverb