laughingstock
laughingstock is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurdity
- anticlimax
- awkward
- bait
- baroque
- bathos
- bear
- bite
- bizarre
- bombast
- bombastic
- buffoonery
- burlesque
- catch
- comedy
- comical
- comicality
- commit
- contemptible
- credulous
- cull
- cully
- dancing
- derisive
- doggerel
- droll
- drollery
- drollish
- dupe
- eccentric
- eccentricity
- error
- extravagance
- extravagant
- fall
- fanciful
- fantastic
- farce
- farcical
- flat
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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