Synonyms of laughing

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adjective

as in merry

indicative of or marked by high spirits or good humor

the satisfying comedy put us in a laughing mood for the rest of the evening

Synonyms & Similar Words

• merry
• jolly
• festive
• smiling
• cheerful
• funny
• amused
• lively
• jovial
• witty
• gleeful
• mirthful
• happy
• sunny
• jocose
• joking
• jocular
• joyful
• amusing
• humorous
• playful
• blithe
• giggling
• delighted
• jocund
• bright
• gay
• chuckling
• blithesome
• ecstatic
• spirited
• bouncing
• hilarious
• lighthearted
• carefree
• animated
• joyous
• cheery
• upbeat
• jubilant
• exuberant
• blissful
• buoyant
• enraptured
• beaming
• rapturous
• exultant
• euphoric
• chipper
• perky
• vivacious
• optimistic
• radiant
• flippant
• jaunty
• frisky
• sprightly
• facetious
• jesting
• peppy
• blessed
• comical
• high
• comic
• thrilled
• tickled
• unconcerned
• hopeful
• elated
• overjoyed
• exhilarated
• frolicsome
• joshing
• rosy
• easygoing
• uproarious
• sportive
• sanguine
• entranced
• cavalier
• riotous
• farcical
• ravished
• zippy
• lightsome
• insouciant
• antic
• gladsome
• sprightful
• sidesplitting
• happy-go-lucky
• devil-may-care

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crying
• sad
• unhappy
• blue
• depressed
• weeping
• anguished
• aggrieved
• melancholy
• sorrowful
• wailing
• abject
• disconsolate
• sobbing
• dejected
• despondent
• glum
• downcast
• forlorn
• heartbroken
• crestfallen
• dispirited
• saddened
• disheartened
• brokenhearted
• disgruntled
• discontented
• sorry
• moody
• heartsick
• moaning
• mournful
• black
• groaning
• plaintive
• dark
• gray
• doleful
• downhearted
• depressing
• lugubrious
• gloomy
• woeful
• joyless
• heavyhearted
• sullen
• low-spirited
• somber
• lachrymose
• bleak
• morose
• dolorous
• dismal
• cheerless
• miserable
• desolate
• dreary
• saturnine
• comfortless
• wretched
• woebegone
• listless
• lethargic
• dull
• sluggish
• torpid

laughing

2 of 3

noun

as in smiling

Related Words

• smiling
• cheering
• rejoicing
• exultation

Dissimilar Words

• tears
• groan
• howl
• wail
• lamentation
• moan
• lament
• keen
• cry
• sob
• plaint
• suffering
• weeping
• mourning
• grieving
• sorrowing
• agonizing

laughing

3 of 3

verb

present participle of laugh

1

as in giggling

to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound

everyone laughed when the clown dramatically slipped and fell

Synonyms & Similar Words

• giggling
• chuckling
• screaming
• smiling
• grinning
• snickering
• roaring
• chortling
• cackling
• tittering
• twittering
• hee-hawing
• cracking up
• splitting one's sides
• breaking up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crying
• sobbing
• weeping
• bawling
• howling
• wailing
• whining
• blubbering
• whimpering
• sighing
• groaning
• sniffling
• bleating
• moaning
• squalling
• yowling
• sniveling
• puling

2

as in sneering

to express scornful amusement by means of facial contortions

you're going to try out for the football team? Don't make me laugh!

Synonyms & Similar Words

• smiling
• sneering
• snickering
• snorting
• sniffing
• sniggering
• insulting
• ridiculing
• mocking
• jeering
• deriding
• hooting
• teasing
• gibing
• taunting
• disdaining
• despising
• decrying
• disparaging
• belittling
• tormenting
• ribbing
• scorning
• scoffing (at)
• razzing
• catcalling
• heckling
• riding
• jiving
• bad-mouthing
• pooh-poohing
• putting down

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of laughing

Noun

A lot of shouting, a lot of laughing, a lot of talk. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026

Keith moved into the center of the balcony, posing and laughing. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 19 June 2026

Mira and two friends moved to a low wall and huddled around their own smartwatches, whispering and laughing. — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

The laughing becomes infectious. — Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026

Belt It Out at Sweet Caroline Karaoke Bar If your idea of a great date involves a little chaos, a lot of laughing, and maybe a surprisingly decent duet, Sweet Caroline Karaoke Bar is calling your name. — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026

The former competitive cheerleader said the laughing was an act of misogyny. — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026

Harbour and Brown arrived together on the red carpet for the premiere of the latest season and were captured on camera laughing, hugging each other and posing for photos. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025

The laughing and stuff wasn’t written into it. — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 5 Sep. 2025

Verb

Sikoa left, Fatu turned his back, and Rollins superkicked him and walked off laughing. — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

Singer Gibby Haynes paces anxiously at centerstage, laughing maniacally into a megaphone. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 July 2026

The crowd was a rainbow mixture of colors, age groups and languages, all chatting and laughing with one another while standing above a granite rendering of Confederate leaders who would have been aghast at what their monument had become. — John Blake, CNN Money, 19 July 2026

Smiling and laughing cockily as he was led out of an NYPD precinct in cuffs, Assaidi was charged with reckless endangerment. — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 18 July 2026

Aside from Saturday Night Live’s Marcello Hernández keeping the crowd laughing as the evening’s host, the red carpet fashion deserved its own moment. — Amanda Le, InStyle, 16 July 2026

Patty, Marilyn said while laughing, was like a politician running for office. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026

Paul appeared to take the joke in stride, laughing and applauding as cameras cut to him in the crowd. — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 16 July 2026

Darnbrough told the judge that Wilson was seen laughing in surveillance video recovered after the attack. — Julie Hanson, CBS News, 13 July 2026