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