laughably
laughably — adverb
1. so silly or badly done that people cannot treat it seriously
so silly or badly done that people cannot treat it seriously
The security system was laughably easy to break into.
laughably + adjective (easy)
Theo found the movie's plot laughably bad and walked out after twenty minutes.
The restaurant charged a laughably high price for a small bowl of plain rice.
The mayor's plan to fix traffic with one extra lane seemed laughably naive.
Priya called the company's support line, but their answer was laughably unhelpful.
- ridiculously
more common than 'laughably'; can describe both silly and extreme situations without the same mocking tone
- absurdly
stronger focus on illogical or unreasonable quality rather than the idea of causing laughter
- preposterously
more formal and emphatic; suggests something is so unreasonable it defies belief
文法句型
laughably + adjective
laughably + past participle
用法筆記
Most commonly appears directly before an adjective that describes something as being of extremely poor quality or unacceptably inadequate. The adverb adds a tone of dismissal or mockery — the speaker thinks the situation is not even worth serious discussion.