| 单词 |
laughable |
| 释义 |
laughable, a.|ˈlɑːfəb(ə)l, ˈlæf-|
[f. laugh v. + -able.]
That may be laughed at; to be laughed at.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. i. 56 They'll not shew their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor sweare the iest be laughable. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 52 He [Persius] was not a laughable Writer. 1840Carlyle Heroes iv. (1858) 293 Puritanism was only despicable, laughable then; but nobody can manage to laugh at it now. 1853Reade Chr. Johnstone 258 [He] had fallen in love with her in a manner that was half pathetic, half laughable. 1870Ouida Held in Bondage 78 She could not see that she had said anything laughable.
¶ Similarly laugh-at-able. (nonce-wd.)
1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. iv, His being deemed so laugh-at-able a character.
Hence ˈlaughably adv., ˈlaughableness.
1815Lady Granville Lett. 1 Aug. (1894) I. 68 She follows and watches him quite laughably. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxx. (1856) 259 All our eatables became laughably consolidated, and after different fashions. 1864Webster, Laughableness. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. 194 The dress of the men is laughably grotesque. |
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