laughable
Use Laughable in a sentence
ə adjective
such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.
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laughable (ˈlɑːfəbəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | producing scorn; ludicrous: he offered me a laughable sum for the picture |
| 2. | arousing laughter |
| 'laughableness | |
| —n | |
| 'laughably | |
| —adv | |
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Laughable
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Example sentences
It was a laughable world with stultifying technological limitations that made half of society strabismic.
To somehow claim that as expertise would be laughable if it weren't so tragic that a science magazine is doing it.
The police found my efforts to reason with them laughable, of course.
The affair would be laughable if the fall-out were not so serious.
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