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Definition: Risible |
RisibleAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "risible" was first used: 1557. (references) |
Etymology: Risible \Ris"i*ble\, adjective. [French expression, from the Latin expression risibilis, from ridere, risum, to laugh. Compare to Ridiculous.]. (references) |
Synonyms: RisibleSynonyms: amusing (adj), comic (adj), comical (adj), funny (adj), laughable (adj), mirthful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Amused; Verb: "pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw"; laughing; Verb:; risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die with laughter; convulsed with laughter, rolling in the aisles. |
Ridiculousness | Drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible; (unimportant); doggerel; ironical; (derisive); risible. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Risible |
| English words defined with "risible": Irrisible. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "risible": ridiculous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Risible" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (comical, farcical, funny, ludicrous, ridiculious), Spanish (laughable, risible). |
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| "Risible" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Risible" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "risible": comic comical funny laughable risible ♦ man is the only risible animal ♦ risible jokes ♦ risible muscles ♦ the risible faculty. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
risible | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "risible"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qesharak (absurd, buffo, comic, comical, derisive, farcical, foolish, funny, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous), që qesh (laughing). (various references) | |
Arabic | مضحك (buffoon, burlesque, clown, comedian, comic, comical, comics, droll, farcical, foolish, funny, harlequin, humorous, jester, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, merry andrew, ridiculous, silly, wag). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | склонен да се смее, свързан със смеха, смешен (amusing, comic, comical, derisive, derisory, farcical, foolish, funny, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, ridiculous, screwy), способен да се смее. (various references) | |
Czech | smìjící se, smìšný (antic, derisory, facetious, funny, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, piffling, quizzical, ridiculous). (various references) | |
Farsi | خنده اور (Droll, Howler, Humorous, Ludicrous). (various references) | |
German | lachlustig (risibly). (various references) | |
Greek | γελαστόσ (jovial), γελαστικόσ, γελοίοσ (clownish, derisive, farcical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nevetséges (absurd, comic, comical, farcical, foolish, laughable, ludicrous, mummery, ridiculous, undignified). (various references) | |
Italian | ridicolo (absurd, antic, comic, comical, laughable, ludicrous, paltry, preposterous, ridicule, ridiculous, ridiculousness, silly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isibleray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | risível (funny, laughable, ridiculous), ridículo (apish, awful, comic, comical, derisive, derisory, extravagant, farcical, foolish, irony, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, quizzical, ragtime, ridicule, ridiculous, satire), com tendência para rir. (various references) | |
Romanian | ridicol (clownish, derisive, farcical, foolish, grotesque, humorous, laughable, laughably, ludicrous, preposterous, ridicule, ridiculous, ridiculously), de râs (derisive, laughing, ludicrous), care râde (laughing), care provoacã râs. (various references) | |
Russian | смехотворный (comic, comical, derisive, derisory, laughable, ludicrous, ragtime, ridiculous), смешной (amusing, comic, comical, farcical, funny, humorous, jokey, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, merry), смешливый (giggly, ticklish). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smešljiv (gay, merry), sklon smejanju. (various references) | |
Spanish | risible (laughable). (various references) | |
Swedish | skrattretande (comical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), skrattlysten. (various references) | |
Thai | น่าหัวเราะ (laughing), น่าขำ. (various references) | |
Turkish | komik (amusing, burlesque, comedian, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, funnyman, gilbertian, humorous, jesting, jocose, laugh, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, rum, rummy), gülme (laugh, laughing, laughter, mirth), güldürücü (jocular, laughing), gülünecek (funny, laughable). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сміхотливий, смішний (amusing, boffo, capricious, comic, comical, droll, funny, laughable, ludicrous, zany). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dễ cười, đáng bu"n cười. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | risibilis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "risible": risibles. (additional references) | |
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"Risible" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: misible, rascible, Reysbye, risable, Riseley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "risible" (pronounced 'Ris"i*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-i-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: birles, libers. | |
-2 letters: biers, biles, birle, birls, birse, bries, liber, libri, liers, ribes, riels, riles, slier. | |
-3 letters: bels, bier, bile, birl, bise, brie, bris, ibis, ires, iris, isle, leis, libs, lier, lies, lire, liri, rebs, reis, ribs, riel, rile, rise, sire. | |
-4 letters: bel, bis, els, ers, ire, lei, lib, lie, lis, reb, rei, res. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-i-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: rinsible, risibles, trilbies. | |
+2 letters: birdlimes, bristlier, irascible, liberties, libraries, tilburies. | |
+3 letters: bairnliest, bilberries, blistering, boilersuit, bristliest, diableries, dirigibles, fiberfills, fibrefills, filibuster, immersible, liberalise, liberalism, liberalist, libertines, librettist, remissible, remissibly, resistible, ribaldries, riflebirds, stabilizer, trilobites. | |
+4 letters: arabilities, biliverdins, bipolarizes, blitzkriegs, boilersuits, brickfields, brilliances, bristlelike, bristletail, brutalities, celebrities, disbeliever, discernible, discernibly, dispersible, equilibrist, erasability, fibrillates, filibusters, impressible, invariables, kimberlites, liberalised, liberalises, liberalisms, liberalists, liberalizes, liberations, libertinism, librettists, lubricities, marbleising, misbeliever, permissible, permissibly, remobilizes, restabilize, reusability, salubrities, satirizable, shipbuilder, stabilizers, thimblerigs, timberlines, tribologies, verbalistic. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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