Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to laughter; causing laughter, or effecting the act of laughing; exciting risibility; risible: as, the risorial muscle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or producing, laughter.

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  • adjective Pertaining to, or producing, laughter.

Etymologies

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Latin ridere, risum, to laugh.

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  • adj. - pertaining to or causing laughter.

    May 16, 2008