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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



... when he thought Giovanni was really jealous of him. The feeling of reverence and respectful admiration which he had long entertained for Corona was so far removed from love as to make Giovanni's wrath appear ridiculous. He would far sooner have expected a challenge from one of Faustina's brothers than from Corona's husband, but, since Sant' Ilario had determined to quarrel, there was no help for it, and he must give him all satisfaction as soon as possible. That Giovanni ...
— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford
... caused them to completely forget their dignity, and they did things that made them utterly ridiculous in the ...
— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish
... Robertson has assigned a place in his collection. Mr. Robertson, also, should take care when he publishes a poem to publish it correctly. Mr. Bret Harte's Dickens in Camp, for instance, is completely spoiled by two ridiculous misprints. In the first line 'dimpling' is substituted for 'drifting' to the entire ruin of rhyme and reason, and in the ninth verse 'the pensive glory that fills the Kentish hills' appears as 'the Persian glory . . .' with a large capital ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde
... supposed page, and thus giving rise to the series of scenes between Viola and Olivia. Out of this love of Olivia for Viola grows the absurd situation of Viola's being obliged to fight a duel, which is made still more ridiculous through the circumstance of her challenger being a fool. Out of Viola's resemblance to her brother and her disguise grows the absurd situation of Olivia's claiming her as a husband, and that of Sir Andrew taking for his unwilling ...
— Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies • Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke
... have a great deal too much for your boys to do, or you would not send your niece about with the things. But if you will take my advice, Mr Elsworthy," said Miss Dora, "you will take care of that poor little thing: she will be getting ridiculous notions into her head;" and aunt Dora went out of the shop with great solemnity, quite unaware that she had done more to put ridiculous notions into Rosa's head than could have got there by means of a dozen darkling walks by the side of the majestic Curate, who never ...
— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant


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