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laughingstock
CIDE DICTIONARY
laughingstock, n.
An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
laughingstock
butt, byword, byword of reproach, derision, dupe, fair game, figure of fun, fool, game, gazingstock, goat, jest, jestingstock, joke, mockery, monkey, stock, target, toy, victimROGET THESAURUS
laughingstock
Ridiculousness
N ridiculousness, comicality, oddity, extravagance, drollery, farce, comedy, burlesque, buffoonery, frippery, doggerel verses, absurdity, bombast, anticlimax, bathos, eccentricity, monstrosity, laughingstock, ridiculous, ludicrous, comical, droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd, whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear, fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre, screaming, eccentric, strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird, awkward, extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic, drollish, seriocomic, tragicomic, gimcrack, contemptible, doggerel, ironical, risible, risum teneatis amici, rideret Heraclitus, du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.Laughingstock
N laughingstock, jestingstock, gazingstock, butt, game, fair game, April fool, original, oddity, queer fish, odd fish, quiz, square toes, old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey, buffoon, pantomimist, schlemiel, jest, dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt.Dupe
N dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool, jay, sucker, laughingstock, Cyclops, simple Simon, flat, greenhorn, fool, puppet, cat's paw, credulous, mistaken.For further exploring for "laughingstock" in Webster Dictionary Online