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laughtersome

laughtersome adjective: characterised or marked by laughter.

Adjective

laughtersome (comparative more laughtersome, superlative most laughtersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by laughter
    • They are a low, laughtersome company.1904, Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, The Lord of Creation
    • Considered from this point of view, we say Punch is a really amusing and laughtersome publication.1908, The Academy, volume 75

Examples of laughtersome in a sentence

  • There also is mad Becky Wells, the laughtersome comedian who molested Mrs.1909, Walter Sydney Sichel, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire, Sheridan
  • With her soul of attitudes, she must have felt herself in a double mood — heroic under strain, and laughtersome at care.1910, Walter Sydney Sichel, Memoirs of Emma, Lady Hamilton:
  • Its laughtersome shrills / Knowing ahead soul is what God deals [...]2016, Dr. Subhas Sarker, Jesus Christ - Eight Part Neoverse Epic:

Forms of laughtersome

comparativemore laughtersome
superlativemost laughtersome

Origin of laughtersome

From laughter + -some.

Questions about laughtersome

What does laughtersome mean?
Laughtersome means characterised or marked by laughter.
How do you use laughtersome in a sentence?
There also is mad Becky Wells, the laughtersome comedian who molested Mrs.
What part of speech is laughtersome?
Laughtersome is an adjective.

Words near laughtersome in the dictionary

  1. laughter yoga
  2. laughter-lines
  3. laughterful
  4. laughterless
  5. laughters
  6. laughtersome
  7. Laughterton
  8. Laughton
  9. Laughton Common
  10. Laughton en le Morthen
  11. Laughtondale

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