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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. inspiring scornful pity;
- Example: "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett
[syn: pathetic, ridiculous, silly]

2. incongruous;inviting ridicule;
- Example: "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"
- Example: "that's a cockeyed idea"
- Example: "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"
- Example: "a contribution so small as to be laughable"
- Example: "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"
- Example: "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"
- Example: "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"
[syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]

3. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce;
- Example: "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"
- Example: "ludicrous green hair"
[syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous]



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.
      [1913 Webster]

            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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Involving or expressing ridicule. [R.]
      [1913 Webster]

            [It] provokes me to ridiculous smiling. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd;
        preposterous. See Ludicrous.
        [1913 Webster] --- Ri*dic"u*lous*ly, adv. --
        Ri*dic"u*lous*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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,
           ridiculous, silly]
    2: 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" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory,
       idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical,
       preposterous, ridiculous]
    3: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the
       wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"
       [syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous]