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English Dictionary: ridiculousness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ridiculousness
n
  1. a message whose content is at variance with reason [syn: absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ridiculous \Ri*dic"u*lous\, 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}. --- {Ri*dic"u*lous*ly},
               adv. -- {Ri*dic"u*lous*ness}, n.
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