Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to laughter; causing laughter, or effecting the act of laughing; exciting risibility; risible: as, the risorial muscle.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to, or producing, laughter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or producing, laughter.
Etymologies
- Latin ridere, risum, to laugh. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
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phrontistery-r
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
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Laffterglow
HA, HA.
chortle, manlaughter, snicker, guffaw, snort, chuckle, titter, giggle, laugh, gelastic, snigger, har-de-har and 60 more...
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smiling words
(s)mei- and other wry smiles
smile, mirror, miracle, mirage, admire, marvel, comity, smirk, marvelous, wonder, wonderful, prodigious and 29 more...
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chznarles's Words
perendinate, abditory, aglet, redolent, kalopsia, iggry, zenzizenzizenzic, stentorian, mantic, degringolade, veriloquence, myrmidon and 12 more...
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whichbe adj. - pertaining to or causing laughter. May 15, 2008