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Laughable vs Unlaughable - What's the difference?

laughable | unlaughable |

As adjectives the difference between laughable and unlaughable

is that laughable is worthless; worthy of contempt or derision while unlaughable is not laughable; at which one cannot or should not laugh.

laughable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.
  • Fitted to excite laughter; humorous.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.}}

    Synonyms

    * droll, ludicrous, mirthful, comical, risible

    Derived terms

    * laughableness * laughably

    unlaughable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not laughable; at which one cannot or should not laugh.
  • * 1963 , Laurence Anthony Michel, Richard Benson Sewall, Tragedy: modern essays in criticism?
    • Utterly unlaughable , it has all the wit of a malevolent commentator as pitiless and well-informed as the records of the Day of Judgment.
  • * 2000 , Walter de Gruyter & Co, Humor, Volume 13
    • Allen Klein's book makes a powerful case for scratching terminal illness from any list of unlaughable topics...