laugh away

1. 1.

   deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it

   “She laughs away all these problems”

   Synonymslaugh off

   Broaderdismiss

Questions about laugh away

What does laugh away mean?

laugh away means "deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it".

What is another word for laugh away?

Close synonyms include laugh off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laugh away a common word?

laugh away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.