Risible

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relating to laughter or used in eliciting laughter.
  • adj. Eliciting laughter; ludicrous.
  • adj. Capable of laughing or inclined to laugh.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to laughter
  • adj. Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant
  • adj. Easily laughing; prone to laughter
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh.
  • adj. Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing.
  • adj. Used in, or expressing, laughter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the faculty or power of laughing.
  • Laughable; capable of exciting laughter; ridiculous.
  • Of or pertaining to laughter; exerted to produce laughter: as, the risible faculty.
  • Same as risibilities. See risibility, 2.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. arousing or provoking laughter
  • Equivalent
    humourous    humorous   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ridiculous    ludicrous    amusing    laughable    laughing    funny   
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