From Middle French risible and directly from Late Latin rīsibilis, from Latin rīsus + -ibilis, from the perfect passive participle of rīdeō ("laugh").

• IPA: /ˈɹɪzɪbəl/, /ˈɹaɪzɪbəl/

risible

1. Of or pertaining to laughter

   the risible muscles

   • 1912, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 20, in Hocken and Hunken:

     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.

2. Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant
   • 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC ↗, page 277 ↗:

     " […] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously.

3. (of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter
   • 1897, Thomas Hardy, chapter 8, in The Well-Beloved:

     She was half risible, half concerned.

• (provoking laughter) funny, laughable, ludicrous

• deridable
• derisible
• laughable

• Italian: risibile
• Russian: смеховой
• Spanish: risible

• German: lachhaft
• Italian: risibile
• Portuguese: risível
• Russian: смешной
• Spanish: risible

• German: lachlustig
• Russian: смешливый