Ridiculous

Definition: Ridiculous

Ridiculous

Adjective

1. Inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett.

2. Completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "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".

3. Broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ridiculous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Ridiculous \Ri*dic"u*lous\, adjective. [Latin expression ridiculosus, ridiculus, from ridere to laigh. Compare to Risible.]. (references)

Synonyms: Ridiculous

Absurdity

Adjective: absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-contradictory; macaronic, punning.

Imbecility Folly

Foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical; extravagant; (nonsensical); sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless; inexpedient; frivolous; (trivial).

Ridiculousness

Verb: be ridiculous; Adjective: pass from the sublime to the ridiculous; make one laugh; play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity.

Adjective: 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; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly).

Unimportance

Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.

Crosswords: Ridiculous

Don't be ridiculous. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

In my humble opinion, this is ridiculous. (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

Did you ever see anything as ridiculous as me on that screen tonight (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an airplane, you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

Now that is just ridiculous, Dude (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

If your love is ridiculous (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW)

Ain't you mama, I'ma make you look so ridiculous now (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem)

This all seems so ridiculous (Answer The Phone; performing artist: Sugar Ray)

Totally Ridiculous (1998)

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Books

• America's Dumbest Criminals from the Hit TV Show: 200 Wild & Weird Stories of Fumbling Felons, Clumsy Crooks, and Ridiculous Robbers from the Hit TV (reference)

• FEG: Ridiculous Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children (reference)

• Jay Leno's Headlines: Book I, II, III : Real but Ridiculous Headlines from America's Newspapers (reference)

• Luncheon at the Cafe Ridiculous (reference)

• Offbeat Uses for Everyday Things: Hundreds of Amazing and Ridiculous Applications for Brand-Name Products (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Musical Selections From The Ridiculous Theatrical Company: The 25th Anniversary (Original Cast Anthology) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

• Ridiculous (reference)

• Virgin on the Ridiculous (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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"Loyalty tests? Essential to security. Movie censorship? Of course! Should left-wingers be jailed? Naturally. What's that. Should food be rationed? Ridiculous! Who wants to live in a police state?". Credit: Library of Congress.

"Tee hee" boys - Born with a vote and a partial sense of the ridiculous / J.S. Credit: Library of Congress.

Permit me to tell you, at the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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This is as ridiculous a way of resisting, as Juvenal thought it of fighting; ubi tu pulsas, ego vapulo tantum. (Second Treatise of Government)

For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists. (reference)

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The sense of the grand was lost, as well as the sense of the ridiculous.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "ridiculous": farcical ludicrous ridiculous ♦ make oneself ridiculous ♦ ridiculous sight. Additional references.

Beginning with "ridiculous": ridiculous-looking.

Ending with "ridiculous": don't-be-ridiculous.

Afrikaans

belaglik (absurd). (various references)

Albanian

qesharak (absurd, buffo, comic, comical, derisive, farcical, foolish, funny, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, risible). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضحك (buffoon, burlesque, clown, comedian, comic, comical, comics, droll, farcical, foolish, funny, harlequin, humorous, jester, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, merry andrew, risible, silly, wag), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏سخيف (absurd, childish, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, inept, silly, spoony, tomfool). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смешен (amusing, comic, comical, derisive, derisory, farcical, foolish, funny, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, risible, screwy), нелеп (absurd, farcical, fatuous, inane, incongruous, inept, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, screwy), за смях, абсурден (absurd, farcical, hot, ludicrous, monstrous, preposterous). (various references)

Chinese 

�'謬 , 可笑 (Comic, Comical, laughable, ludicrous). (various references)

Czech

smìšný (antic, derisory, facetious, funny, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, piffling, quizzical, risible). (various references)

Danish

latterlig (absurd). (various references)

Dutch

mal (absurd, calibre, model), lachwekkend (absurd), gek (absurd, crazy, insane, lunatic, mad, nuts, odd, peculiar, strange). (various references)

Esperanto

ridinda. (various references)

Faeroese

láturverdur (absurd). (various references)

Farsi 

مسخره امیز (Burlesque, Droll), مضحک (Absurd, Burlesque, Comic, Droll, Grotesque, Hilarious, Laughable, Ludicrous, Preposterous), خنده دار (Comic, Gig, Hilarious, Laughable, Queer, Waggish). (various references)

Finnish

naurettava (ludicrous). (various references)

French

ridicule (ridicule). (various references)

German

lächerlich (absurd, comical, farcical, foolish, funny, idiotically, laughable, laughably, ludicrous, ludicrously, petty, piddling, preposterous, ridiculously, risible, trivial). (various references)

Greek 

γελοίοσ (clownish, derisive, farcical, laughable, ludicrous, risible), γελοίος (ludicrous), περίγελος (laughing stock, ludicrous, stooge), αξιογέλαστοσ (ludicrous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�'וחך (absurd, farcical, grotesque, ludicrous, mock, preposterous, stupid), מצחיק (amusing, comic, comical, droll, funny, humorous, laughable, ludicrous), �'חכ� י (jocular), � לע�' (laughable, ludicrous). (various references)

Hungarian

nevetséges (absurd, comic, comical, farcical, foolish, laughable, ludicrous, mummery, risible, undignified), képtelen (absurd, impassible, impossible, nonsensical, unable). (various references)

Indonesian

menggelikan (laughable, tickle). (various references)

Italian

ridicolo (absurd, antic, comic, comical, laughable, ludicrous, paltry, preposterous, ridicule, ridiculousness, risible, silly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

阿呆臭い , 阿呆らしい , 烏滸がましい (absurd, impertinent, presumptuous), 片腹痛い (absurd), 笑止 (absurdity, contemptible, laughable, pitiful), 目茶 (absurd, excessive), 人笑わせ (laughable), 滑稽 (comical, funny, humorous, joking, laughable), 可笑しな (odd), 可笑しい (amusing, funny, strange). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おかしな (odd), おかしい (amusing, funny, strange), お�"がましい (absurd, impertinent, presumptuous), しょうし (absurdity, boatman, contemptible, crystallite, death by fire, eulogy, laughable, low birth rate, midnight, officers and men, paper making, pitiful, praise, short or concise history, stamp), ひとわらわせ (laughable), かたはらいたい (absurd), �"っけい (comical, funny, humorous, joking, laughable, National day, severe punishment), あほくさい, あほらしい, めちゃ (absurd, excessive). (various references)

Korean 

어리석은 (silly, stupid). (various references)

Manx

faghidagh (contemptible, derider, derisive, despiser, distainful, insulting, scornful, sneerer). (various references)

Papiamen

ridíkulo (absurd). (various references)

Pig Latin

idiculousray.(various references)

Polish

śmieszny (absurd). (various references)

Portuguese

ridículo (apish, awful, comic, comical, derisive, derisory, extravagant, farcical, foolish, irony, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, quizzical, ragtime, ridicule, risible, satire). (various references)

Romanian

ridicol (clownish, derisive, farcical, foolish, grotesque, humorous, laughable, laughably, ludicrous, preposterous, ridicule, ridiculously, risible), derizoriu, caraghios (antic, blockhead, booby, buffoon, comic, dolt, eccentric, fool, foolish, funny, ridiculously, screaming, singular, strange, zany), absurd (absurd, absurdity, absurdly, Dotty, fabulous, foolish, impossible, inept, irrational, ludicrous, mad, mindless, nonsensical, piffling, preposterous, recondite, silly, stupid, temerarious, unreasonable). (various references)

Russian 

смехотворный (comic, comical, derisive, derisory, laughable, ludicrous, ragtime, risible), нелепый (absurd, grotesque, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ragtime, ridicule, ungodly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smešan (amusing, comical, droll, funny, hilarious, laughable, ludicrous, rich, ridicule). (various references)

Spanish

ridículo (absurd, farcical, ludicrous, ridicule, silly). (various references)

Swedish

löjlig (absurd, derisive, derisory, foolish, funny, laughable, ludicrous), tokig (barmy, Batty, bonkers, cock eyed, cockeyed, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, Dotty, fruity, gaga, insane, loony, mad, madcap, moony, nuts, touched, wrong), narraktig (ridicoulus). (various references)

Thai

น่าขัน (laughable). (various references)

Turkish

rezalet (disgrace, ignominy, indignity, infamousness, obloquy, opprobrium, outrage, outrageousness, rotten, scandal, scene, shambles, villainy), komik (amusing, burlesque, comedian, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, funnyman, gilbertian, humorous, jesting, jocose, laugh, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, rich, risible, rum, rummy), gülünç (amusing, burlesque, camp, comic, derisive, derisory, droll, fantastic, fantastical, foolish, funny, gilbertian, grotesque, humorous, jesting, laughable, ludicrous), anlamsız (absurd, barren, blank, dead pan, empty, expressionless, for the birds, frivolous, grotesque, inane, incoherent, inept, inexpressive, insane, insignificant, meaningless, nonsense, nonsensical, of no significance, pointless, purposeless, senseless, sodden, unmeaning, unreasonable, vacuous, vain, yeasty). (various references)

Turkmen 

gьlkьnз (funny, humorous), bolgusyz (absurd, meaningless). (various references)

Ukrainian

сміховинний (absurd, derisive, derisory, farcical, screaming, splitting), обурливий (crying, disgraceful, exasperating, flagrant, outrageous, rampageous, scandalous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tức cười (laughable), lố lăng (ludicrous), lố bịch (absurd, comical, grotesque, ludicrous, preposterous, priceless), bu�"n cười (droll, funny, jocular, ludicrous, quizzical). (various references)

Welsh

chwerthinllyd (laughable). (various references)

ridiculosus, ridiculum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ridiculous": ridiculously, ridiculousness, ridiculousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ridiculous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: redicullous, rediculous, ridicilous, ridicolous, ridiculo, ridiculos, ridiculuous, ridiculus, riduculous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ludicrous.

-2 letters: sciuroid, siluroid.

-3 letters: cirsoid, curious, sciurid, silurid.

-4 letters: clouds, clours, coulis, curios, durocs, oculus, solidi.

-5 letters: clods, cloud, clour, coils, coirs, colds, cords, could, cruds, curds, curio, curls, diols, dirls, disci, disco, dolci, duroc, duros, idols, iodic, irids, lidos, locus, lords, loris, louis, lours, lucid, ludic, lurid, oculi, roils, scold, scour, scrod, scudi.

+2 letters: ridiculously.

+4 letters: ridiculousness.

+5 letters: pulchritudinous.