The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laughable \Laugh"a*ble\, a. Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.
Syn: Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. [1913 Webster] -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a manner that can be laughed at, humorous, in a laughable manner.
WordNet
adv. so as to arouse or deserve laughter; "her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well" [syn: ridiculously, ludicrously, preposterously]
Usage examples of "laughably".
Edwige is happily installed in the new world, where the sexist fashions and disguises of the superannuated Don Juan, his cape and his sword, are laughably out of place.
It failed laughably to ring true and was unlikely to impress even the most liberal of judges.
But even Uncle Alan never seemed to realize that they were playing tyrant over a laughably tiny pond: Balacrea, Frenk, Gaspr.
The thin microfiber trench that had seemed like a good fashion decision in August was laughably ineffectual now.
He drew one and then the other knee across the cold, polished stone and heaved himself up, laughably like the beasts, rump first, then the forearms.
Most of the crimes would be misdemeanors, and the penalties would be laughably light.
Though she wore her finest dress, she knew perfectly well that the clothing would be laughably crude and lacking in style in Alera Imperia, the capital.
There was no computer matching of blood or numberplates, let alone of something so laughably out of reach as 'genetic fingerprints'.
There was no computer matching of blood or numberplates, let alone of something so laughably out of reach as "genetic fingerprints".