risible
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Synonyms
antic, chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, humoristic, humorous, hysterical (also hysteric), killing, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious
Antonyms
humorless, lame, unamusing, uncomic, unfunny, unhumorous, unhysterical
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Some are chic, many are risible; all of it has an exuberant view of the future that marks it as decidedly from the past. — Jason Farago, New York Times, "Back to the Future With Pierre Cardin’s Space-Age Fashion," 22 Aug. 2019 The performance art sequences, which can so easily come across as risible when filmed, are sensitively choreographed and shot here, and are therefore able to retain at least some of their original punch. — Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter, "'This Is Not Berlin' ('Esto no es Berlin'): Film Review," 29 June 2019 The first go-round was the risible 2006 Brett Ratner film X-Men: The Last Stand, which indicated Jean Grey’s turn to darkness by dressing her in a particularly vile-looking corset. — David Sims, The Atlantic, "A Slapdash Farewell to the X-Men Series," 6 June 2019 That contention was dismissed as risible by NBC insiders. — Brian Flood, Fox News, "NBC honchos hope to replace embattled news boss Andy Lack after multiple scandals," 14 May 2018 Interspersed with these put-downs are risible, often mystifying passages in which Ortese pontificates on class, politics and the afflictions of Naples and southern Italy. — Ben Downing, WSJ, "‘Neapolitan Chronicles’ Review: Naples Painted Black," 6 Apr. 2018 What might have caught Trump’s eye, besides the ratings, is one of those risible self-promotional stories in which ABC claims to have had the genius idea to revive Roseanne as a morning-after response to Trump’s election. — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, "Trump Only Knows Chaos," 5 Apr. 2018 The Dutch police impounded the white rides on the risible grounds that they were unlocked (which, of course, was the point). — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Great bike bloom is a performance art form," 5 Apr. 2018 Just one month after his risible Death Wish remake pancaked, we've been handed the trailer for his new... kid's horror movie starring Jack Black? — Tom Philip, GQ, "Eli Roth Made a Horror Movie... For Kids?," 27 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'risible.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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