risible |ˈrizəbəl| adjectivesuch as to provoke laughter: a risible sceneof lovemaking in a tent.• rare (of a person) having the faculty or power of laughing; inclined to laugh.DERIVATIVESrisibility |ˌrizəˈbilətē| noun.risibly |-blē| adverbORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense‘inclined to laughter’): from late Latinrisibilis, from Latin ris- ‘laughed,’from the verb ridere .
What a perfect word, yet I've never used it. This shall change.
Hmm, I think context has failed me badly when I've encountered this word in my reading! D'oh.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the same happened to me.
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