adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stupid/ridiculous suggestion
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It seemed a ridiculous suggestion.
an absurd/ridiculous notion
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They had the ridiculous notion that they could make a living from singing.
stupid/ridiculous/crazy
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The idea sounded crazy to me.
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Camping in the middle of winter was a ridiculous idea!
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He had the crazy idea of hitchhiking around South America.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
absolutely
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Now he'd put all the facts together the story sounded absolutely ridiculous .
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She looked absolutely ridiculous and she knew it.
as
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He looked every bit as ridiculous as he feared.
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My friend suggested that maybe the machine was the problem, an idea that seemed to strike the nurse as ridiculous .
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The fifteen-year period is merely half as ridiculous as the thirty-year period.
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Mailloux said that some current attitudes are just as ridiculous .
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In Orkney, the idea of devil worship was seen as ridiculous .
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Remember, once again, to make the images as ridiculous as you possibly can.
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This is not as ridiculous as it might at first seem.
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Hence to ban one but not the other may not be as ridiculous as a simple interpretation of their model would suggest.
faintly
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Most censorship decisions appear faintly ridiculous in the light of day.
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For those who know Portishead, the idea that this modest spot is to be made famous twice is faintly ridiculous .
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With a single look she had made him feel faintly ridiculous .
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My parents still live there and my father loves it and shares its faintly ridiculous pride.
how
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How ridiculous that the world would guarantee to keep them apart. How ridiculous that he should care.
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It suddenly dawned on me how bizarre, how ridiculous and how dreamlike my situation was.
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It did not cross Stephen's mind how ridiculous he must look.
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But to the tune of £20,000 a month? How ridiculous .
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We talked about how ridiculous things had become.
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She was suddenly aware how ridiculous she was becoming.
more
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Labour's latest one is more ridiculous than most.
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It's more ridiculous than a coincidence.
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Very sensible of Hilda: nothing is more ridiculous than an old-age pensioner gabbling on about his or her risqué past.
most
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You say the most ridiculous things.
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It sounded like the most ridiculous excuse she could have dreamed up to use.
quite
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The fall of birds is meant to be seen as quite ridiculous and wholly supernatural in its proportions.
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It was quite ridiculous and so very obvious that he was doing this for many dubious reasons of his own.
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And a woman's girdle at two guineas struck Charlie as quite ridiculous .
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This was quite ridiculous , after all, merely a legal transaction.
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Anyway, this is quite ridiculous .
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Her thoughts were far too much on Alain and it was quite ridiculous .
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The court found the idea of Mr Warner unconsciously communicating coded messages to Samuel's fellow criminals quite ridiculous .
slightly
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My slight personal acquaintance with the subject of all this discouraging impersonal solemnity seemed slightly ridiculous .
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This made her look slightly ridiculous and McKillop had to fight back a smile.
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They are also slightly ridiculous and can turn anger and tears to laughter very quickly.
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He was a weak man, and in some ways a slightly ridiculous one.
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On the journey home he felt slightly ridiculous , like some broken-down knight preparing for a tournament.
so
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I couldn't do anything so ridiculous as streaking cold-blooded!
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This whole thing is just so ridiculous .
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It was all so ridiculous , he thought, allowing himself to get involved with these motley characters.
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She seemed so exposed, so ridiculous , he wanted to point and laugh.
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In the cold light of day it all seemed so ridiculous .
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Was it so ridiculous , then?
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I mean, there's something so ridiculous about it all.
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It was so ridiculous to think they should dry this up and make fields.
too
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You thought it was just too ridiculous to be true?
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Your story would sound too ridiculous to be believed.
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No, that's too ridiculous .
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Oh, sorry - that last one was too ridiculous .
totally
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Which is, of course, totally ridiculous , when you look at it rationally.
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And the action premise that completes this credo may seem totally ridiculous in these troubled times.
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Why should it matter how many photos you had? Totally ridiculous things.
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What a totally ridiculous dream - and about Fen of all people, the last person imaginable, a man she disliked.
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Who turned the scene round, made it work so that the rest of the operetta is not totally ridiculous ?
utterly
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How utterly ridiculous ! she chided herself sharply.
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It was entirely against her will and utterly ridiculous , but she could not seem to stop doing it.
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He looked utterly ridiculous , lounging untidily back against the door.
■ NOUN
idea
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Implicit in the name is the ridiculous idea that you can only have fun on a funboard.
situation
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But battle she must if she was to survive this ridiculous situation .
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It was such a ridiculous situation .
thing
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Of all the damned stupid, ridiculous things to have done!
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You say the most ridiculous things .
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Nancy's having hysterics and raving about a black ghost, of all ridiculous things .
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What a ridiculous thing to think about a man she detested.
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The fabric of our society would be seen to be the ridiculous thing it is.
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We talked about how ridiculous things had become.
things
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Of all the damned stupid, ridiculous things to have done!
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You say the most ridiculous things .
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Nancy's having hysterics and raving about a black ghost, of all ridiculous things .
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We talked about how ridiculous things had become.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
from the sublime to the ridiculous
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His paintings range from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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After due consideration she decided to go from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Chelsea's capacity for lurching from the sublime to the ridiculous is a tradition.
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Constructed layer by layer, Ostrowski's canvases range from the sublime to the ridiculous, presenting many paradoxes in the process.
too silly/complicated/ridiculous etc for words
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She wore some sort of ridiculous cowgirl getup.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He considers such maneuverings a ridiculous way to run a government and still potentially hazardous to the credit markets here and abroad.
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I remember the ridiculous plans such as the selective employment tax.
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Jeanne Tripplehorn pairs with Dylan McDermott in this comedy about a ridiculous romantic and an utter realist brought together by destiny.
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Now that is a ridiculous experiment, and impossible to do.
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This should have been plainly ridiculous to the Elizabethan audience.
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This whole thing is just so ridiculous .
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While I do not agree with much of what Sinead says, I feel I must defend her from your ridiculous slurs.