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Ridiculous   /rɪdˈɪkjələs/   Listen
adjective
Ridiculous  adj.  
1.
Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior. "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."
2.
Involving or expressing ridicule. (R.) "(It) provokes me to ridiculous smiling."
Synonyms: Ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd; preposterous. See Ludicrous.





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"Ridiculous" Quotes from Famous Books



... interrupted eagerly, "we all went over the situation and we've made up our minds to a mode of action. You are such an impractical old chump, Rog! It's ridiculous for you to waste your time trying to make an engine out of a junk pile while the main idea of your invention, the real selling part, is neglected." He ...
— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie
... to have arrived at some extreme height of feeling. There were two modes of descent open to him—a burst of rage or a surrender to the ridiculous. He chose wisely; and the empty hall ...
— Options • O. Henry
... project Mrs. Ormonde exhausted herself in eloquent if contradictory argument: but finding she made no impression, suddenly changed the subject. "That is a very expensive school you have chosen for the boys, Katherine. 'Duke thinks it ridiculous. Sixty pounds a year for such a little fellow as Cis! and now Charlie ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... father ten thousand dollars, or anybody else ten thousand dollars! Why, that is perfectly ridiculous. Who says he did?" ...
— The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus • Horatio Alger Jr.
... Irish village— pigs, fowls, and children equally noisy and filthy, and the parents wild, ignorant, and impulsive—may have some notion of this kind of thing. You never get a true account, much less a true illustration of the real thing. Did you happen to see a ridiculous engraving on one of the S. P. Gr. sheets some years ago, supposed to be me taking two Ambrym boys to the boat? (Footnote: No such engraving can be found by the S. P. Gr. It was probably put forth in some other publication.) ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge


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