Risible
adjective
Something that makes you want to laugh because it is extremely silly or unreasonably funny.
Most people thought that his big, poofy hairstyle was absolutely risible.
Often appears as...
- a risible idea
- a risible attempt
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Being fit to laugh at.
His risible, lopsided mustache drew a lot of attention in the party.
Often appears as...
- a risible argument
- a risible expression
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Something that makes you want to laugh because it is extremely silly or unreasonably funny.
Most people thought that his big, poofy hairstyle was absolutely risible.
Often appears as...
- a risible idea
- a risible attempt
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Being fit to laugh at.
His risible, lopsided mustache drew a lot of attention in the party.
Often appears as...
- a risible argument
- a risible expression
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Exaggeratedly Funny
Use 'risible' when something is so absurd it goes beyond usual amusement to provoke hearty laughter.
The play's risible plot twists had the audience roaring with laughter.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Risible' often implies ridicule; it's not just funny, but deserving of mockery.
The risible claims made by the politician were mocked on social media.
Pro Tip 3/3Irony Usage
Use 'risible' to describe a situation that's ironically amusing, where laughter stems from disbelief or sarcasm.
He made a risible promise of flying cars by next year.
Pro Tip 1/3Exaggeratedly Funny
Use 'risible' when something is so absurd it goes beyond usual amusement to provoke hearty laughter.
The play's risible plot twists had the audience roaring with laughter.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Risible' often implies ridicule; it's not just funny, but deserving of mockery.
The risible claims made by the politician were mocked on social media.
Pro Tip 3/3Irony Usage
Use 'risible' to describe a situation that's ironically amusing, where laughter stems from disbelief or sarcasm.
He made a risible promise of flying cars by next year.
Pro Tip 1/3Exaggeratedly Funny
Use 'risible' when something is so absurd it goes beyond usual amusement to provoke hearty laughter.
The play's risible plot twists had the audience roaring with laughter.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Risible' often implies ridicule; it's not just funny, but deserving of mockery.
The risible claims made by the politician were mocked on social media.
Pro Tip 3/3Irony Usage
Use 'risible' to describe a situation that's ironically amusing, where laughter stems from disbelief or sarcasm.
He made a risible promise of flying cars by next year.
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Ben Dunlap: The...
"Learn as if you'll live forever." This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem.
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Ben Dunlap: The...
"Learn as if you'll live forever." This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem.
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Quote examples
Edmund White
American Novelist
In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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Michiko Kakutani
American Critic
Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses while he was living in Abbottabad is simply risible. Bin Laden's principal goal was the overthrow of the Saudi royal family as a result of which his Saudi citizenship was revoked as far back as 1994.
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Antony Gormley
British Artist
If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
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Arabella Weir
British Comedian
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
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Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.
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Edmund White
American Novelist
In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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Michiko Kakutani
American Critic
Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses while he was living in Abbottabad is simply risible. Bin Laden's principal goal was the overthrow of the Saudi royal family as a result of which his Saudi citizenship was revoked as far back as 1994.
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Antony Gormley
British Artist
If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
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Arabella Weir
British Comedian
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
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Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.
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