Risible meaning

rĭzə-bəl
Eliciting laughter; ludicrous.
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Capable of laughing or inclined to laugh.
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The definition of risible is a person or thing with the ability to laugh, is related to laughing or is funny.

An example of risible is a monkey capable of laughing.

An example of risible is the comedy of Tina Fey.

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Relating to laughter or used in eliciting laughter.
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Able or inclined to laugh.
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Of or connected with laughter.
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Of or pertaining to laughter.

The risible muscles.

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(of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter.
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Causing laughter; laughable; funny; amusing.
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Origin of risible

  • Late Latin rīsibilis from Latin rīsus past participle of rīdēre to laugh

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French risible. from Late Latin rÄ«sibilis, rÄ«sus (“laughter") + -ibilis, from the perfect passive participle of rÄ«deō (“laugh").

    From Wiktionary

Risible Sentence Examples

  • The celebration of ethnic particularism is becoming more and more risible.

  • This makes the improbable attraction between ape and woman must less risible; just as kittens and puppies raised together bond as a pack, so a girl and gorilla might form a familial bond.

  • This risible residue of the sixties must have been in the minds of the production team when Star Trek: The Next Generation as planned.

  • They watched him with a kind of suppressed excitement and became risible with his every word and gesture.

  • flimsyonly risible thing is that you continue to try to have a pop at me on the flimsiest of pretexts.

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