Word Meanings - RIDICULOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: RIDICULOUS

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. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RIDICULOUS)

• Absurd
• Irrational
• ridiculous
• monstrous
• senseless
• asinine
• stupid
• chimerical
• unreasonable
• preposterous
• silly
• nonsensical
• foolish
• Foolish
• Senseless
• idiotic
• crazed
• shallow
• weak
• injudicious
• irrational
• absurd
• contemptible
• objectionable
• witless
• brainless
• imbecile
• simple
• Funny
• Sportive
• droll
• comical
• laughable
• humorous
• jocose
• ludicrous
• diverting
• Ludicrous
• Ridiculous
• farcical
• comic
• funny
• Preposterous
• Monstrous
• exorbitant

Related words: (words related to RIDICULOUS)

• IRRATIONAL
  Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• COMICAL
  1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous;
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• JOCOSE
  Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn.
• NONSENSICAL
  Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.
• ABSURDNESS
  Absurdity.
• CHIMERICAL
  Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• UNREASONABLE
  Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
• LAUGHABLE
  Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv.
• HUMOROUSLY
  1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily.
• DIVERTING
  Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
• EXORBITANTLY
  In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• MONSTROUS
  1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural
• CRAZE-MILL; CRAZING-MILL
  A mill for grinding tin ore.
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• INDIVERTIBLE
  Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.