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comparative more risible, superlative most risible
Of or pertaining to laughter quotations examples
A joke merely affected her with silent convulsive twitchings, as though the risible faculties struggled somewhere within her but could not bring the laugh to birth.
1912, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 20, in Hocken and Hunken
Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant quotations examples
" […] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously.
1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., page 277
(of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter quotations examples
We are got indeed into a merry world, Laughing is our main buſiniſs; as if becauſe it has bin made part of the Definition of man, that he his Riſible, his man-hood conſiſted in nothing elſe.
1674, Anonymous [Richard Allestree?], “Of Scoffing and Deriſion”, in The Government of the Tongue, At the Theater in Oxford, page 119
She was half risible, half concerned.
1897, Thomas Hardy, chapter 8, in The Well-Beloved