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LAUGH AT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does laugh at mean?

• LAUGH AT (verb)
The verb LAUGH AT has 1 sense:

1. subject to laughter or ridicule

Familiarity information: LAUGH AT used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LAUGH AT (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Subject to laughter or ridicule

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; ridicule; rib; roast

Context examples:

The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house / The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher / His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

Hypernyms (to "laugh at" is one way to...):

bemock; mock (treat with contempt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "laugh at"):

tease (mock or make fun of playfully)

lampoon; satirise; satirize (ridicule with satire)

debunk; expose (expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas)

stultify (cause to appear foolish)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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