Word Meanings - LAUGHINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With laughter or merriment.

LAUGHTER
A movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
LAUGHTERLESS
Not laughing; without laughter.
MERRIMENT
Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic. "Follies and light merriment." Spenser. Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment. Milton.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
MANSLAUGHTER
The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.
SELF-SLAUGHTER
Suicide. Shak.
SLAUGHTEROUS
Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.
SLAUGHTER
The act of killing. Specifically: The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton. The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. Syn. -- Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder;
SLAUGHTERER
One who slaughters.
SLAUGHTERMAN
One employed in slaughtering. Shak.