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51Risibleness — Risible Ris i*ble, a. [F., fr. L. risibilis, fr. ridere, risum, to laugh. Cf. {Ridiculous}.] 1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. [1913 Webster] Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that… …
52Risibly — Risible Ris i*ble, a. [F., fr. L. risibilis, fr. ridere, risum, to laugh. Cf. {Ridiculous}.] 1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. [1913 Webster] Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that… …
53comedy — comedial /keuh mee dee euhl/, adj. /kom i dee/, n., pl. comedies. 1. a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance,… …
54funny — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. amusing, droll, comic; absurd, laughable, mirth provoking, ludicrous; informal, strange, odd; ( pl.) comics. See wit, absurdity. Ant., unfunny. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Stirring to laughter] Syn.… …
55laughable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ludicrous, amusing, comic, absurd; facetious, humorous. See absurdity. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Exciting humor] Syn. funny, ludicrous, comic, comical; see funny 1 . 2. [Exciting humor and some… …
56laughable — adjective Date: 1596 of a kind to provoke laughter or sometimes derision ; amusingly ridiculous • laughableness noun • laughably adverb Synonyms: laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, comic, comical mean provoking laughter or mirth. laughable applies …
57caricature — I. noun Etymology: Italian caricatura, literally, act of loading, from caricare to load, from Late Latin carricare Date: 1712 1. exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics 2. a representation especially in… …
58Spaceballs — This article is about the film. For the TV series, see Spaceballs: The Animated Series. For other uses, see Spaceball (disambiguation). Spaceballs Theatrical release poster Directed by …
59Minstrel show — For the album by Little Brother, see The Minstrel Show. Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843 The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety …
60Dangling modifier — A dangling modifier, a specific case of which is the dangling participle,[1] is an error in sentence structure whereby a grammatical modifier is associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. For example, a …
