risible

Adjective

risible (comparative more risible, superlative most risible)

1. Of or pertaining to laughter.
   • the risible muscles
   • 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, chapter 20, in Hocken and Hunken
2. Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant.
   • "[…] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously.1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 277
   • Do you find it risible when I say the name, 'Biggus Dickus'?1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Pontius Pilate (Michael Palin)

   Synonyms:

   funny, laughable, ludicrous

3. Easily laughing; prone to laughter.
   • We are got indeed into a merry world, Laughing is our main buſiniſs; as if becauſe it has bin made part of the Definition of man, that he his Riſible, his man-hood conſiſted in nothing elſe.1674, Anonymous [Richard Allestree?], “Of Scoffing and Deriſion”, in The Government of the Tongue, At the Theater in Oxford, page 119
   • She was half risible, half concerned.1897, Thomas Hardy, chapter 8, in The Well-Beloved