unlaughable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ laughable

Adjective[edit]

unlaughable (comparative more unlaughable, superlative most unlaughable)

  1. Not laughable; at which one cannot or should not laugh.
    • 1963, Laurence Anthony Michel, Richard Benson Sewall, Tragedy: modern essays in criticism:
      Utterly unlaughable, it has all the wit of a malevolent commentator as pitiless and well-informed as the records of the Day of Judgment.
    • 2000, Humor, Volume 13, Walter de Gruyter & Co:
      Allen Klein's book makes a powerful case for scratching terminal illness from any list of unlaughable topics...