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ridiculous
[ ri-dik-yuh-luhs ]
ridiculous
/ rɪˈdɪkjʊləs /
adjective
- worthy of or exciting ridicule; absurd, preposterous, laughable, or contemptible
Derived Forms
- riˈdiculously, adverb
- riˈdiculousness, noun
Other Words From
- ri·dic·u·lous·ly adverb
- ri·dic·u·lous·ness ri·dic·u·los·i·ty [ri-dik-y, uh, -, los, -i-tee], noun
- hy·per·ri·dic·u·lous adjective
- hy·per·ri·dic·u·lous·ly adverb
- qua·si-ri·dic·u·lous adjective
- qua·si-ri·dic·u·lous·ly adverb
- un·ri·dic·u·lous adjective
- un·ri·dic·u·lous·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of ridiculous1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ridiculous1
Idioms and Phrases
see from the ridiculous to the sublime .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Some of it has to be attributed to the ridiculous offensive environment we have seen in the bubble.
In my driveway during lunchtime I felt ridiculous swinging a kettlebell.
We’re coming up with such a ridiculous answer that it really forces us to reinvestigate every single assumption that we made along the way to get there.
The telltale sign of these problems is that models claiming to predict past elections extremely well often produce inaccurate — or even ridiculous — answers when applied to elections in which the result is unknown ahead of time.
Shepard said he’s always dismissed allegations of voter fraud through mail voting as ridiculous, based on the validation steps followed by registrars in California, and by San Diego Registrar Michael Vu in particular.
As it turns out, though, cartoon curmudgeons get the best, most ridiculous lines.
Pitchfork called him a “a rap-obsessed misfit from a summer camp who freestyles poorly” who is “ridiculous without knowing it.”
It was fearless and raunchy and fun and ridiculous and weird and feminist and powerful.
Marriage is a bond and a commitment—marrying yourself is ridiculous because you are already married to yourself.
Are the standards for female beauty in Hollywood ridiculous?
This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.
I do not know how things are in America but in England there has been a ridiculous attempt to suppress Bolshevik propaganda.
This was such a ridiculous idea that Davy threw back his head, and laughed long and loud.
In case any reader should hastily exclaim, “What a ridiculous question; there can be only one southward!”
Her directness had made all possible 'buts' seem ridiculous and futile, and had made the expression of curiosity seem offensive.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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