Thesaurus: ridiculous

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1. a. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior.
2. a. Involving or expressing ridicule.
3. adj. inspiring scornful pity
4. adj. so unreasonable as to invite derision
5. adj. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
6. 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.
7. j:100 s inspiring scornful pity s incongruous; inviting ridicule s broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce