cachinnate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈkækɪneɪt/

Definition of cachinnate

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To laugh loudly, immoderately, or too often.
    “The villain began to cachinnate and twirl his moustache.”
    “There is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comet’s tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mocking imps of Tartarus.”

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Etymology

From Latin cachinnō (“laugh aloud”), of onomatopoeic origin.

Words you can make from cachinnate

198 playable · top: ATECHNIC (15 pts)

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9-letter words

1 word

8-letter words

2 words

7-letter words

8 words

6-letter words

26 words

5-letter words

41 words

4-letter words

56 words

3-letter words

44 words

2-letter words

19 words

Hooks

2 extensions · 2 back

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