laugh off
verb
laughed off; laughing off; laughs off
transitive verb
: to minimize by treating as amusingly or absurdly trivial
Word History
First Known Use
1676, in the meaning defined above
laughs off
verb
as in shrugs off
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- shrugs off
- plays down
- minimizes
- discounts
- poohs
- underrates
- belittles
- undervalues
- deprecates
- diminishes
- pooh-poohs
- regrets
- laments
- bemoans
- mourns
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- boasts
- blows
- brags
- bulls
- crows
- vapors
- swaggers
- gasconades
- vaunts
- puffs
- harangues
- blusters
- prides
