What does cachinnate mean?
Cachinnate means (intransitive) To laugh loudly, immoderately, or too often..
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/ˈkækɪneɪt/ · verb
(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.
Use cachinnate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cachinnate means (intransitive) To laugh loudly, immoderately, or too often..
Common synonyms include guffaw.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The villain began to cachinnate and twirl his moustache.
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