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adjective
Risible  adj.  
1.
Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. "Laughing is our busines,... it has been made the definition of man that he is risible."
2.
Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities." "I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance."
3.
Used in, or expressing, laughter; as, risible muscles. Note: Risible is sometimes used as a noun, in the plural, for the feeling of amusement and for the muscles and other organs used in laughing, collectively; as, unable to control one's risibles.
Synonyms: Ludicrous; laughable; amusing; ridiculous Risible, Ludicrous, Ridiculous. Risible differs from ludicrous as species from genus; ludicrous expressing that which is playful and sportive; risible, that which may excite laughter. Risible differs from ridiculous, as the latter implies something contemptuous, and risible does not.





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"Risible" Quotes from Famous Books



... half-suspecting what must have occurred, and finding it covered by the girl's superstitious notions, added to which there were the feathers, the sneezes, and the cook's blessings upon his Majesty King George the Third, the boy's risible faculties were so bestirred that he burst into a roar ...
— The New Forest Spy • George Manville Fenn
... paid, through the medium of my risible muscles, due homage to this witticism of Vincent's, he shut up his folio, called for his hat, and we sauntered down into the street. As we passed by one of the libraries, a whole mob of the dandies of the last night ...
— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... life, and we shall be forced to own, that there is not one of them all but what is subject to chagrin and sadness; and, consequently, that joy, or mirth, is most necessary to men. Which very probably the philosopher had in his head, when he defined man a risible animal. But be that as it will, one must certainly look upon that maxim which recommends mingling of pleasures with the affairs of life as a ...
— Ebrietatis Encomium - or, the Praise of Drunkenness • Boniface Oinophilus


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