ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

smile, simper, smirk; grin, grin like a Cheshire cat; mock, laugh in one's sleeve; laugh,
laugh outright; giggle, titter, snigger, crow, snicker, chuckle, cackle; burst out, burst into
a fit of laughter; shout, split, roar.
shake one's sides, split one's sides, hold both one's sides; roar with laughter, die with
laughter.
Adj. amusing, entertaining, diverting &c v.; recreational, recreative, lusory † ; pleasant &c
(pleasing) 829; laughable &c (ludicrous) 853; witty &c 842; fun, festive, festal; jovial,
jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish † ; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious † .
funny; very funny, hilarious, uproarious, side-splitting.
amused &c v.; pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw [Pope]; laughing &c v.;
risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die with laughter; convulsed with laughter,
rolling in the aisles.
Adv. on the light fantastic toe [Milton], at play, in sport.
Int. vive la bagatelle! [Fr.], vogue la galere! [Fr.],
Phr. deus nobis haec otia fecit [Lat.]; dum vivimus vivamus [Lat.]; dulce est desipere in
loco [Lat.] [Horace]; (every room) hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy
[Timon of Athens]; misce stullitiam consiliis brevem [Lat.] [Horace].
841. Weariness -- N. weariness, defatigation † ; lassitude &c (fatigue) 688; drowsiness &c
683.
disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness; satiety &c 869; taedium vitae &c (dejection) 837;
boredom, ennui.
wearisomeness, tediousness &c adj.; dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale.
bore, buttonholer, proser † , wet blanket; pill [Slang], stiff [Slang]; heavy hours, the
enemy (time).
V. weary; tire &c (fatigue) 688; bore; bore to death, weary to death, tire to death, bore out
of one's skull, bore out of one's life, weary out of one's life, tire out of one's life, bore out
of all patience, weary out of all patience, wear out one's patience, tire out of all patience;
set to sleep, send to sleep; buttonhole.
pall, sicken, nauseate, disgust.
harp on the same string; drag its slow length along, drag its weary length along.
never hear the last of; be tired of, be sick of, be tired with &c adj.; yawn; die with
ennui.
[of journalistic articles] MEGO, my eyes glaze over.
Adj. wearying &c v.; wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald,
devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy,
prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.
disgusting &c v.; unenjoyed † .
weary, tired &c v.; drowsy &c (sleepy) 683; uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out,
blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.
Adv. wearily &c adj.; usque ad nauseam [Lat.].
Phr. time hanging heavily on one's hands; toujours perdrix [Fr.]; crambe repetita [Lat.].
842. Wit -- N. wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism † ; salt,
esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry.