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Risible

//ˈɹɪzɪbəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to laughter

    "the risible muscles"

  2. 2
    Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant

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

  3. 3
    Easily laughing; prone to laughter

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    arousing or provoking laughter wordnet

Etymology

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

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