laughtersome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by laughter

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivelaughtersome (comparative more laughtersome, superlative most 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
    4 more examples

    Considered from this point of view, we say Punch is a really amusing and laughtersome publication.

    1908, The Academy, volume 75

    There also is mad Becky Wells, the laughtersome comedian who molested Mrs. Crewe and Miss Burney by dogging their footsteps round a picture gallery, …

    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

Origin

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APA

laughtersome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laughtersome

MLA

“laughtersome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laughtersome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “laughtersome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laughtersome.

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