TITTERS Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of titter

as in chuckles

an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement a titter swept through the crowd at his verbal slip

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verb

present tense third-person singular of titter

as in laughs

to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound even as students in the sex ed class continued to titter, the lecturer plowed ahead

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The editor could just add a laugh in postproduction, from polite titters to hearty guffaws. — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2026 And from there, titters occasionally came out as the unleashed host moved on to one of the highest forms of comedy, muskrat humor. — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 May 2026 Meyers acted his dang butt off in this sketch, and the audience paid him back with unsure and hesitating titters — not crickets, but not enthusiasm either. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025

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Noun

Brian Leonard’s smartly funny ode to his difficult daughter — a child whose behavior was so problematic, the family cycled through 28 therapists — offers plenty of chuckles, even with key questions left unanswered.

— Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2026
The risk, though, with horror-comedy—with dinging from chuckles to shrieks and back again—is always an evacuated center.

— James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of chuckles

Verb

The rest of the video cuts to the pro getting his shaggy platinum blonde hair snipped and shaved down to a shorter look by the reality star, who laughs multiple times while taking charge of Appleton’s transformation.

— Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
The friend laughs and dips her head toward her hand on the bar in delight.

— Liz Johnson, USA Today, 29 July 2026

Definition of laughs

Noun

Her giggles kept interrupting the tune through much of her performance, and soon Pioneer Hall was laughing with her and cheering her through it.

— Nick El Hajj, Des Moines Register, 18 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, donning night-vision giggles, Knoxville gleefully attacks them with trash can lids and tasers.

— Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of giggles

Noun

As executed, the 2019 show is an emotional yet refreshingly unsentimental black comedy that snickers in the face of empowerment buzzwords like, well, healing journey.

— Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
There were snickers from some of the other students, including a tall and lank-haired kid whose name Adele didn’t know.

— Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

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