- very silly or unreasonable synonym absurd, ludicrous
- I look ridiculous in this hat.
- Don't be ridiculous! You can't pay £50 for a T-shirt!
- It was ridiculous that this should be so difficult to say.
- They ate and drank a ridiculous amount.
Extra Examples- The whole idea was patently ridiculous.
- The whole situation appealed to her sense of the ridiculous.
- This is getting ridiculous!
- Don't be so ridiculous!
- It's ridiculous to suggest that she was involved in anything illegal.
- That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- look
- …
- really
- absolutely
- completely
- …
- a sense of the ridiculous
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin ridiculosus, from ridiculus ‘laughable’, from ridere ‘to laugh’.
Idioms
See ridiculous in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee ridiculous in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishfrom the sublime to the ridiculous
- used to describe a situation in which something serious, important or of high quality is followed by something silly, unimportant or of poor quality
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