risible

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Of or pertaining to laughter

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.

Provoking laughter; ludicrous

I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance? replied his companion.

Easily laughing; prone to laughter

She was half risible, half concerned.

capable of exciting laughter
{a} exciting laughter, laughable, ridiculous
disapproval If you describe something as risible, you mean that it is ridiculous and does not deserve to be taken seriously. = ludicrous. something that is risible is so stupid that it deserves to be laughed at (risibilis, from ridere )
{s} laughable, causing laughter, funny; pertaining to laughter; having a tendency to laugh
Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh
Used in, or expressing, laughter; as, risible muscles
Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing
arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"
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{n} the quality of laughing, laughter
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a disposition to laugh
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The property of being risible
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{i} tendency to laugh; quality of causing laughter
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The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species
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