very silly or unreasonable:
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.
ridiculously adverb:
The meal was ridiculously expensive. * She was wearing a pair of ridiculously high-heeled shoes.
ridiculousness noun [U]:
The ridiculousness of the situation made us laugh.
IDIOMS see SUBLIMEn.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for ridiculous is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ridiculous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ridiculous is tagged as adjective.
Does ridiculous appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — ridiculous appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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