ridiculous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ridiculous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ridiculous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ridiculous adj inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett Synonym(s): pathetic, ridiculous, silly 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" Synonym(s): absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" Synonym(s): farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ridiculous \Ridic"ulous\, 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. 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. 2. Involving or expressing ridicule. [r.] [It] provokes me to ridiculous smiling. --Shak. Syn: Ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd; preposterous. See {Ludicrous}. --- {Ridic"ulously}, adv. -- {Ridic"ulousness}, n.