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LUDICROUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
Example:
ludicrous green hair
Synonyms:
farcical; ludicrous; ridiculous
Classified under:
Similar:
humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
So unreasonable as to invite derision
Example:
her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous
Synonyms:
absurd; cockeyed; derisory; idiotic; laughable; ludicrous; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous
Classified under:
Similar:
foolish (devoid of good sense or judgment)
Context examples:
Horner and Smoke had been displaying a gallantry toward Maud Brewster, ludicrous in itself and inoffensive to her, but to him evidently distasteful.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It's evident he doesn't look in his glass before coming down, thought Jo, with a smile, as he said Goot efening, and sat soberly down, quite unconscious of the ludicrous contrast between his subject and his headgear, for he was going to read her the Death of Wallenstein.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The little airs he put on and the painful striving to assume the easy carriage of a man born to a dignified place in life would have been sickening had they not been ludicrous.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Little Raphael, as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. Her teachers complained that instead of doing her sums she covered her slate with animals, the blank pages of her atlas were used to copy maps on, and caricatures of the most ludicrous description came fluttering out of all her books at unlucky moments.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
