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laughters

NOUN

audible expression of amusement

Synonyms

WEAK

amusement cachinnation cackle chortle chuckle chuckling crack-up crow fit gesture giggle giggling glee guffaw hilarity howling merriment mirth peal rejoicing roar shout shriek snicker snigger snort sound titter yuck

Antonyms

WEAK

cry

NOUN

amusement

Synonyms

STRONGEST

amusement chuckle gesture giggle glee guffaw hilarity laugh mirth roar shout shriek snicker

STRONG

cachinnation cackle chortle crack-up crow crowing fit howling merriment peal rejoicing roaring shouting snigger snort snorting sound titter

WEAK

chortling chuckling giggling guffawing har-de-har tehee tittering yuck

Antonyms

STRONGEST

sadness unhappiness

WEAK

despair gloom

Example Sentences

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And foremost among the laughters was doubtless the rattle-pated Boswell.

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington

The human cadence and the subtle chime Of little laughters, home and child and wife, He knew not.

From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher

A broken, lurching music came from them, a nasal melody that moaned among the laughters.

From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben

And oh! the white laughters, The wicked malice of the white laughters Which they laughed at me, With their ghastly teeth, in answer!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

In the fourth stanza for "sudden laughters" of the jay was substituted the felicitous "sudden scritches," and the sixth and seventh stanzas were suppressed.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton