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   Ris·i·ble

   /ˈrizəb(ə)l/

   

   adjective

   • 1. such as to provoke laughter: "a risible scene of lovemaking in a tent"
   • ▪ (of a person) having the faculty or power of laughing; inclined to laugh.

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘inclined to laughter’): from late Latin risibilis, from Latin ris- ‘laughed’, from the verb ridere.

   Derivatives

   • 1. risibility noun
   • 2. risibly adverb

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • R

     1

   • I

     1

   • S

     1

   • I

     1

   • B

     3

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

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