laughtersome

English

Etymology

From laughter +‎ -some.

Adjective

laughtersome (comparative more laughtersome, superlative most laughtersome)

1. Characterised or marked by laughter
   • 1904, Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, The Lord of Creation:

     They are a low, laughtersome company.

   • 1908, The Academy, volume 75:

     Considered from this point of view, we say Punch is a really amusing and laughtersome publication.

   • 1909, Walter Sydney Sichel, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire, Sheridan:

     There also is mad Becky Wells, the laughtersome comedian who molested Mrs. Crewe and Miss Burney by dogging their footsteps round a picture gallery, [...]

   • 1910, Walter Sydney Sichel, Memoirs of Emma, Lady Hamilton:

     With her soul of attitudes, she must have felt herself in a double mood — heroic under strain, and laughtersome at care.

   • 2016, Dr. Subhas Sarker, Jesus Christ - Eight Part Neoverse Epic:

     Its laughtersome shrills / Knowing ahead soul is what God deals [...]

See also

• laughsome

Anagrams

• laughometers