risible

From French risible. from Late Latin rīsibilis, rīsus (“laughter”) + -ibilis, from the perfect passive participle of rīdeō (“laugh”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪzɪbəl/, /ˈɹaɪzəbəl/

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risible (comparative more risible, superlative most risible)

1. Of or pertaining to laughter

   the risible muscles

   • 1912, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Hocken and Hunken, ch. 20:

     A joke merely affected her with silent convulsive twitchings, as though the risible faculties struggled somewhere within her but could not bring the laugh to birth.

2. Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant
   • 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Peveril of the Peak. [...] In Four Volumes, volume III, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685, page 277:

     " […] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously.

3. (of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter
   • Dr H. More

     It has been made the definition of man that he is risible.

   • 1897, Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved. ch. 8:

     She was half risible, half concerned.

• (provoking laughter): funny, laughable, ludicrous

Borrowed from Latin rīsibilis, from rīdeō (“to laugh”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.zibl/

risible (plural risibles)

1. risible, laughable

• risiblement

• rire

• “risible” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Late Latin rīsibilis, from rīdeō (“to laugh”)

risible (plural risibles)

1. risible, laughable