risible

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This is true enough; for such a farago of incongruous, risible, and horrible events, are no where else recorded.

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  1. adjective Relating to laughter or used in eliciting laughter.
  2. adjective Eliciting laughter; ludicrous.
  3. adjective Capable of laughing or inclined to laugh.

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  • Nay, it is a well-known fact, which I can testify from my own experience, that on a clear still summer evening, you may hear, from the Battery of New York, the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw, who, like most other negroes, are famous for their risible powers. —  Washington Irving
  • The only website representing Welsh Labour on the web that isn't entirely risible is the party's official website, which nevertheless can be criticised for its lack of imagination, innovation and provision for Welsh speakers in comparison to certain other party websites. —  BlogCymru.com
  • Of course this idea that Brown is "Prudence incarnate" is so risible, so detached from all reality that only the dare run with it. —  Biased BBC
  • MSI's claims that woman in these countries "will be left with few options other than abortion" is particularly risible, coming as it does from the very agency that is responsible for many of the abortions that are performed in Africa in the first place. —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
  • The best to say about Del Toro's Cannes-honored performance is that it's exhausting - all exterior, no soul, like watching an android run a gauntlet (one that includes grueling physical exertions, tendentious political speechifying, and risible Matt Damon cameos). —  UGO.com - UnderGroundOnline
 

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  1. Late Latin rīsibilis, from Latin rīsus, past participle of rīdēre, to laugh.

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  1. from Old French (and F.) risible = Spanish risible = Portuguese risivel = Italian risibile, laughable, from Late Latin risibilis, that can laugh, from Latin ridere, past participle risus, laugh: see rident, ridicule.
 

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