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

Derived Forms

• ˈrisibly, adverb

Other Words From

• un·risi·ble 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

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Salon

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.”

From Los Angeles Times

But the movie feels reduced to a muddle, and its climactic sequence, which ought to have been a moving depiction of love and sacrifice, comes off as unintentionally campy and risible.

From New York Times