laughing at
Deriding with amusement
Laughing at someone or something means directing laughter toward them, usually mockingly or dismissively: They were laughing at his awkward dancing.
The phrase implies ridicule rather than shared amusement—compare laughing with, which suggests enjoying humor together.
To laugh at a threat or obstacle is to treat it as trivial: She laughed at the idea that she couldn't handle it.
- sniggeringStifled, scornful chuckling
- ridiculingMocking with contempt
- jokeHumorous statement seeking laughter
- inside jokeHumor requiring shared history
- punch lineJoke's culminating moment
making fun · poking fun · humor · schadenfreude · laughing stock · funny · comedy · silly · kidding · mockery · cheap shot · derision · scorn · dominance · humiliation · superiority · alienation · social exclusion
- disrespectinsulting, belittling, demeaning, mocking, ridiculing
- gesturesgesture, hand gestures, applause, hand raise, tap on shoulder
- mockerymockery, ridiculing, jeers, jeering, jibes
laughing atrespecting
About; on the topic
admiring · revering · venerating · honoring · looking up to
laugh, laughs, laughed, laughter, laughable, laughably, laugher