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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French risible and directly from Late Latin rīsibilis, from Latin rīsus (“laughter”) + -ibilis, from the perfect passive participle of rīdeō (“laugh”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
risible (comparative more risible, superlative most risible)
- Of or pertaining to laughter
- the risible muscles
- 1912, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 20, in Hocken and Hunken:
- 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.
- 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin):
- Do you find it risible when I say the name, 'Biggus Dickus'?
- 2024 May 1, Mel Holley, “Network News: New action from ASLEF to hit Bank Holiday services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 14:
- Whelan called the offer "risible", describing it as a "land grab for all the terms and conditions we have negotiating over the years". He demanded a no-strings pay offer that recognises the "significant cost of living increases" since the last pay rise in 2019.
- (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, chapter 8, in The Well-Beloved:
- She was half risible, half concerned.
Synonyms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
pertaining to laughter
provoking laughter
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prone to laughter
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Adjective[edit]
risible m or f (masculine and feminine plural risibles)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin rīsibilis, from rīdeō (“to laugh”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
risible (plural risibles)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “risible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin rīsibilis, from rīdeō (“to laugh”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
risible m or f (masculine and feminine plural risibles)
Further reading[edit]
- “risible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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