laughably

1. 1.

   so as to arouse or deserve laughter

   “her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well”

   Synonymsridiculouslyludicrouslypreposterously

Questions about laughably

What does laughably mean?

laughably means "so as to arouse or deserve laughter".

How many syllables are in laughably?

laughably has 3 syllables and divides as laug-ha-bly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for laughably?

Close synonyms include ridiculously, ludicrously, preposterously. 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.