LAUGHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laughing mean? 

• LAUGHING (adjective)
  The adjective LAUGHING has 1 sense:

1. showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness

  Familiarity information: LAUGHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAUGHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness

Synonyms:

laughing; riant

Context example:

laughing children

Similar:

happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)

 Context examples 

Holmes tore it open and burst out laughing.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Which did she choose?" asked one of the laughing gentlemen, who enjoyed the subject.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But Grey Beaver laughed loudly, and slapped his thighs, and told the happening to all the rest of the camp, till everybody was laughing uproariously.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

After some laughing, the gentleman whom he had called Quinion, said: And what is the opinion of Brooks of Sheffield, in reference to the projected business?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When he saw me he slipped from under his curious protection and came towards me laughing, and yet, as I thought, with some confusion in his manner.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He held out his hand, laughing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was a little gentleman, with glasses, thin in the face, but very pleasant in his ways, for he was laughing all the time that he was talking.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have seen old John Hawkwood, the same who has led half the Company into Italy, stand laughing in his beard as he heard it, until his plates rattled again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Apparently they were talking and laughing, though at that distance—upwards of a mile—I could, of course, hear no word of what was said.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Never mind,” said Holmes, laughing; “it is my business to know things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)