laugh off

1. 1.

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

   “She laughs away all these problems”

   Synonymslaugh away

   Broaderdismiss

Questions about laugh off

What does laugh off mean?

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

What is another word for laugh off?

Close synonyms include laugh away. 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 off a common word?

laugh off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.