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Pronunciation: /ˈrɪ.deɪt/
Definition:
1. To emit laughter or amusement
2. Producing laughter or chuckles
3. Laughing in reaction to jokes or funny circumstances
4. Audible indication of pleasure or entertainment

Significance:
• It defines acts of laughter and enjoyment.
• It emphasizes positive emotional reactions.
• It identifies forms of ridicule, gentle vociferous etc.
• It avoids Scandinavian-Germanic origins.
• It simplifies descriptions of ridicule intensity.
• It improves accuracy in emotional description
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms similar to "laugh".
Parts of Speech:
Past verb: ridated
Present simple verb: ridate, ridates
Present continuous verb: ridating
Singular noun: risure
Plural noun: risures
Examples:
• "Evigilating comedies encourage audiences to ridate vacantly"
• "His infectious smile (subrisure) made everyone else start ridating."
• "She ridated so solidly during the movie that tears (lacrimes) appeared in her eyes."
• "His infectious subrisure commits everyone else to start ridates."
• "Memorable vacations paid attention to the joke. She could not aid but ridate."
ridate by Dmitrio October 15, 2025
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Non-awkward settings. A place, public or private, that is comfortable and allows all parties to feel at ease.
For whatever reason, sex in your parent's basement was backfiring as a turn-on. I am so glad we have since managed to find somewhere rivate to be together.
Rivate by J. Raymond February 24, 2010
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Adj: Pompous, arrogant and egotistic as a result of incredibly high IQ
Noun: An ingenius but insufferable prick who raises the threshold for everyone else so that his/her ego can be satisfied
1) The risate (adj) kid hacked the school servers and replaced the school toppers list with repetitions of his own name. The principal wasn't sure whether to feel amazed or repulsed.
2) "The risate (noun, sin.)in my class was responsible for raising the required passing grade to 110%."
3) "Watch out for that kid next door. I heard he topped in several subjects, including ones that aren't available for the general public yet."
"Wow, he must be one of those risates (noun, plu.) we hear in the news."
risate by RazRaptre May 14, 2015
Someone who hates on Rihanna for no apparent reason and ALWAYS brings up the Chris Brown incident, because their original.
Rihater: "I hate the stupid Rihanna so much!! That's why Chris Brown beat her ass!"

Normal Person: Goddamn, you Rihater

Ridalecious 

Perfection at its best. Something that is one in a million to find.
Ed Sheerans music is ridalecious!
Ridalecious by beingraf March 8, 2017
Rifate is a spanglish deformation of the common mexican word Rifar, spanglished to be "Rifate".
Rifar means to be great at something, to have a huge sucess, like Darth Vader shooting the Death Star.
So, to rifate is a verb.
I Rifate ---- Verb!

All the common determinations to the verb are applied.
It rifates a lot!

You just pwned him in the face! You Rifate!
Rifate by Die Katze April 11, 2009

pir-ritated

I get very pir-ritated with things my husband does
pir-ritated by QueenCharm August 13, 2023
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