adjective
definition
Of or pertaining to laughter
example
the risible muscles
definition
Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant
definition
(of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter
Examples of risible in a Sentence
Hence all the fancy projections of fabulous economic returns are quite frankly risible.
Byatt seldom meets an adjective or adverb she doesn't like, and the result is often risible rather than revelatory.
The celebration of ethnic particularism is becoming more and more risible.
It's uninspiringly generic, but delivered with such cumbersome and charmless aggression that it soon becomes irksome, even risible in places.
Byatt seldom meets an adjective or adverb she does n't like, and the result is often risible rather than revelatory.
Your definition of English is alternately risible or repugnant, if you meant it in earnest.
They watched him with a kind of suppressed excitement and became risible with his every word and gesture.
It is inverted, arrogant, perverted, risible, humanist thinking that imagines that it implies merit.
These yearly keeps may seem risible to some, but they are a means of bringing people together in an increasingly disjointed society.
Sufficiently apprised of the risible nature of my enquiries, he holds all the cards and knows it, I am a green acolyte.
This is a risible level of commitment for a national champion of the internet.
This proliferation makes rather risible the Guardian's expressions of expletive fatigue in relation to Gordon Ramsay's television appearances.
Mike Ashman makes a rough-hewn and risible attempt at drawing characterisation and making a theatrical entity out of the piece.
It 's uninspiringly generic, but delivered with such cumbersome and charmless aggression that it soon becomes irksome, even risible in places.
This proliferation makes rather risible the Guardian 's expressions of expletive fatigue in relation to Gordon Ramsay 's television appearances.
This makes the improbable attraction between ape and woman must less risible; just as kittens and puppies raised together bond as a pack, so a girl and gorilla might form a familial bond.
And Diesel is an imposing screen presence even when growling risible dialog.