Laughable vs Unlaughable - What's the difference?
laughable | unlaughable |
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)
Not laughable; at which one cannot or should not laugh.
* 1963 , Laurence Anthony Michel, Richard Benson Sewall, Tragedy: modern essays in criticism?
* 2000 , Walter de Gruyter & Co, Humor, Volume 13
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)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, risibleDerived terms
* laughableness * laughablyunlaughable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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...