risible

[riz-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; ludicrous.

   Synonyms: comical, humorous, funny

2. having the ability, disposition, or readiness to laugh.

3. pertaining to or connected with laughing.

risible

/ ˈrɪzɪbəl /

adjective

1. having a tendency to laugh

2. causing laughter; ridiculous

Other Word Forms

• risibly adverb
• unrisible adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of risible¹

1550–60; < Late Latin rīsibilis that can laugh, equivalent to Latin rīs ( us ) laughed (past participle of rīdēre to laugh) + -ibilis -ible

Word History and Origins

Origin of risible¹

C16: from Late Latin rīsibilis , from Latin rīdēre to laugh

Example Sentences

The Muslim Brotherhood is not, as “Arab Spring” boosters risibly claimed a decade and a half ago, a Western partner in “democracy.”

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DOGE’s claims about Social Security data are almost risibly ignorant.

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I hadn’t been to an Angels game in a few years, and the stadium was as risible as I remembered it, if not more so.

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Her works achieve the difficult feat of synthesizing a coma-inducing dullness with piercingly shrill extended diatribes to create reverse masterpieces worthy of the most risible North Korean propaganda.

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That includes deliveries of its most highly touted new model, the Cybertruck pickup, which has been ridiculed in the automotive press and on social media for its risibly blockheaded design and mechanical and cosmetic flaws.

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