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risible

[ riz-uh-buhl ]

adjective

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

    Synonyms: , ,

  2. having the ability, disposition, or readiness to laugh.
  3. pertaining to or connected with laughing.


risible

/ ˈɪɪə /

adjective

  1. having a tendency to laugh
  2. causing laughter; ridiculous
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ܲ·i· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of risible1

1550–60; < Late Latin ī that can laugh, equivalent to Latin ī ( us ) laughed (past participle of īŧ to laugh) + -ibilis -ible
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of risible1

C16: from Late Latin ī , from Latin īŧ to laugh
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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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But these steps may only be delaying the inevitable: Many North Koreans don’t buy the Kim regime’s indoctrination, which risibly portrays North Korea as being a “utopia surrounded by a hellish outside world.”

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