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ludicrous

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs//
  • United Kingdom//ˈljuː.dɪ.kɹəs//
  • United States//ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs//

Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.

adjective

  1. 1

    Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.

    He made a ludicrous attempt to run for office.

    Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

    She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

    […] That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lūdicrus. First attested in 1619.

Forms

comparative
more ludicrous
superlative
most ludicrous
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).