risible
Other forms: risibly
Risible describes something that is laughable or amusing, like seeing dozens of clowns emerge from a very tiny car.
Risible is a fun word to say (it rhymes with visible), but it's not used all that much, maybe because it's a little formal. If you started saying the word risible all the time, that itself might be a little bit risible. Fun — and less stuffy — synonyms include amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, and mirthful.
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arousing or provoking laughter
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You'd be a fool not to learn these words related to pranks, jokes, and deceit. For more on the history of these words, read The Cunning, Risible Holiday of April Fool's Day.
This satirical novel imagines a dystopian future in which people have computers implanted in their heads to control their perceptions of reality.
Three unpublished short stories by J.D. Salinger leaked on to the internet over the Thanksgiving weekend. While it remains to be seen when and if those stories will see the legal light of day, their appearance called to mind Salinger's last published short story, which takes the form of the world's longest, most belligerent and possibly saddest letter home from camp ever. Originally published in "The New Yorker," June 19, 1965.