Word Meanings - LAUGHTERLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not laughing; without laughter.
Related words: (words related to LAUGHTERLESS)
- LAUGHINGLY
With laughter or merriment. - LAUGHTER
A movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. - LAUGH
hliehhan; akin to OS. hlahan, D. & G.lachen, OHG. hlahhan, lahhan, lahh, Icel. hlæja. Dan. lee, Sw. le, Goth. hlahjan; perh. of 1. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly - LAUGHABLE
Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv. - LAUGHSOME
Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - LAUGHING
from Laugh, v. i. Laughing falcon , a South American hawk ; -- so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laughing. -- Laughing gas , hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen; -- so called from the exhilaration and laughing which it - LAUGHWORTHY
Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson. - LAUGHINGSTOCK
An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay. - LAUGHTERLESS
Not laughing; without laughter. - WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer. - WITHOUT
1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer. - LAUGHER
1. One who laughs. 2. A variety of the domestic pigeon. - OUTLAUGH
1. To surpass or outdo in laughing. Dryden. 2. To laugh out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down. His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity. Franklin. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - ONSLAUGHT
1. An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras. 2. A bloody fray or battle. Jamieson. - MANSLAUGHTER
The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton. - SELF-SLAUGHTER
Suicide. Shak. - SLAUGHTEROUS
Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv. - OVERSLAUGH
A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. Bartlett. - SLAUGHTER
The act of killing. Specifically: The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton. The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. Syn. -- Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder;