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unlaughable

adj

Etymology

From un- + laughable.

  1. inherited from *hlahjaną✻
  2. inherited from *hlahhjan✻
  3. inherited from hlæhhan
  4. inherited from laughen
  5. suffixed as laughable — “laugh + able”
  6. prefixed as unlaughable — “un + laughable”

Definitions

  1. Not laughable

    Not laughable; at which one cannot or should not laugh.

    • Utterly unlaughable, it has all the wit of a malevolent commentator as pitiless and well-informed as the records of the Day of Judgment.
    • Allen Klein's book makes a powerful case for scratching terminal illness from any list of unlaughable topics...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unlaughable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA