Define the word ridiculous"Ridiculous" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Ridiculous \Ri*dic"u*lous\, a. [L. ridiculosus, ridiculus, fr.
ridere to laigh. Cf. Risible.]
1. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy
of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or
behavior.
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Agricola, discerning that those little targets and
unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become
ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded
three Batavian cohorts . . . to draw up and come to
handy strokes. --Milton.
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2. Involving or expressing ridicule. [R.]
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[It] provokes me to ridiculous smiling. --Shak.
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Syn: Ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd;
preposterous. See Ludicrous.
[1913 Webster] --- Ri*dic"u*lous*ly, adv. --
Ri*dic"u*lous*ness, n.
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"ridiculous" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
ridiculous
adj 1: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and
unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting
on in years"- Dashiell Hammett [syn: pathetic, silly]
2: completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; "the absurd
excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed
idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical
answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it
is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous
attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited
assumption of universal interest in her rather dull
children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory,
idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous]
3: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the
wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green
hair" [syn: farcical, ludicrous]
"ridiculous" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "ridiculous":
a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, amusing, antic, barred,
beyond belief, bizarre, closed-out, cockamamie, comic, comical,
contrary to reason, crazy, doubtable, doubtful, droll, dubious,
dubitable, eccentric, excluded, extravagant, fantastic, farcical,
foolish, funny, grotesque, hard of belief, hard to believe,
high-flown, hilarious, hopeless, humorous, implausible, impossible,
improper, inane, inconceivable, incongruous, incredible, indecent,
indelicate, insane, laughable, logically impossible, ludicrous,
malodorous, mirthful, monstrous, nonsensical, not deserving belief,
not possible, open to doubt, open to suspicion, outlandish,
outrageous, outre, oxymoronic, paradoxical, passing belief,
poppycockish, preposterous, priceless, problematic, prohibited,
quaint, queer, questionable, quizzical, rich, risible, rough,
ruled-out, screaming, self-contradictory, silly, staggering belief,
stupid, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, unbecoming,
unbelievable, unconvincing, undecorous, unearthly, ungodly,
unimaginable, unseemly, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weird,
whimsical, wild, witty, zany
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