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Ludicrous

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Ludicrous has 2 senses

  • ludicrous(s = adj.all) farcical, ridiculous - broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"
  • ludicrous(s = adj.all) absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous - incongruous;inviting ridicule; "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"

CIDE DICTIONARY

Ludicrousa. [L. ludicrus, or ludicer, from ludus play, sport, fr. ludere to play.].
  •  Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.  Broome.  [1913 Webster]
    "A chapter upon German rhetoric would be in the same ludicrous predicament as Van Troil's chapter on the snakes of Iceland, which delivers its business in one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in Iceland -- there are none."
  •  Ridiculously absurd.  [PJC]
Syn. -- Laughable; sportive; burlesque; comic; droll; ridiculous.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Ludicrous, adj. absurd or ridiculous; laughable.

Derivative
ludicrously adv. ludicrousness n.
Etymology
L ludicrus prob. f. ludicrum stage play

THESAURUS

Ludicrous

absurd, amusing, antic, beyond belief, bizarre, cockamamie, comic, comical, crazy, droll, eccentric, extravagant, fantastic, farcical, foolish, funny, grotesque, high-flown, hilarious, humorous, incongruous, incredible, laughable, monstrous, nonsensical, outrageous, outre, poppycockish, preposterous, priceless, quaint, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, screaming, silly, weird, whimsical, wild, witty

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Ridiculousness

N ridiculousness, comicality, oddity, extravagance, drollery, farce, comedy, burlesque, buffoonery, frippery, doggerel verses, absurdity, bombast, anticlimax, bathos, eccentricity, monstrosity, laughingstock, ridiculous, ludicrous, comical, droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd, whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear, fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre, screaming, eccentric, strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird, awkward, extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic, drollish, seriocomic, tragicomic, gimcrack, contemptible, doggerel, ironical, risible, risum teneatis amici, rideret Heraclitus, du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.

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