risible
- Of or pertaining to laughter.
- 1912, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Hocken and Hunken, ch. 20:
- 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, Hocken and Hunken, ch. 20:
- Provoking laughter; ludicrous.
- 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak, ch. 34:
- “I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?” replied his companion.
- 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak, ch. 34:
- (of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter.

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