risible
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French risible. from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin rīsibilis, rīsus (“laughter”) + -ibilis, from the perfect passive participle of rīdeō (“laugh”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
risible (comparative more risible, superlative most risible)
- 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.
- Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant
- 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 277:
- " […] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously.
- (of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter
- 1674, Anonymous [Richard Allestree?], “Of Scoffing and Deriſion”, in The Government of the Tongue[1], At the Theater in Oxford, page 119:
- We are got indeed into a merry world, Laughing is our main buſiniſs; as if becauſe it has bin made part of the Definition of man, that he his Riſible, his man-hood conſiſted in nothing elſe.
- 1897, Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved. ch. 8:
- She was half risible, half concerned.
Synonyms
Translations
pertaining to laughter
provoking laughter
prone to laughter
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rīsibilis, from rīdeō (“to laugh”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
risible (plural risibles)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “risible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin rīsibilis, from rīdeō (“to laugh”)
Adjective
risible m or f (masculine and feminine plural risibles)
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