RIDICULOUS


Meaning of RIDICULOUS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a stupid/ridiculous suggestion

It seemed a ridiculous suggestion.

an absurd/ridiculous notion

They had the ridiculous notion that they could make a living from singing.

stupid/ridiculous/crazy

The idea sounded crazy to me.

Camping in the middle of winter was a ridiculous idea!

He had the crazy idea of hitchhiking around South America.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

absolutely

Now he'd put all the facts together the story sounded absolutely ridiculous .

She looked absolutely ridiculous and she knew it.

as

He looked every bit as ridiculous as he feared.

My friend suggested that maybe the machine was the problem, an idea that seemed to strike the nurse as ridiculous .

The fifteen-year period is merely half as ridiculous as the thirty-year period.

Mailloux said that some current attitudes are just as ridiculous .

In Orkney, the idea of devil worship was seen as ridiculous .

Remember, once again, to make the images as ridiculous as you possibly can.

This is not as ridiculous as it might at first seem.

Hence to ban one but not the other may not be as ridiculous as a simple interpretation of their model would suggest.

faintly

Most censorship decisions appear faintly ridiculous in the light of day.

For those who know Portishead, the idea that this modest spot is to be made famous twice is faintly ridiculous .

With a single look she had made him feel faintly ridiculous .

My parents still live there and my father loves it and shares its faintly ridiculous pride.

how

How ridiculous that the world would guarantee to keep them apart. How ridiculous that he should care.

It suddenly dawned on me how bizarre, how ridiculous and how dreamlike my situation was.

It did not cross Stephen's mind how ridiculous he must look.

But to the tune of £20,000 a month? How ridiculous .

We talked about how ridiculous things had become.

She was suddenly aware how ridiculous she was becoming.

more

Labour's latest one is more ridiculous than most.

It's more ridiculous than a coincidence.

Very sensible of Hilda: nothing is more ridiculous than an old-age pensioner gabbling on about his or her risqué past.

most

You say the most ridiculous things.

It sounded like the most ridiculous excuse she could have dreamed up to use.

quite

The fall of birds is meant to be seen as quite ridiculous and wholly supernatural in its proportions.

It was quite ridiculous and so very obvious that he was doing this for many dubious reasons of his own.

And a woman's girdle at two guineas struck Charlie as quite ridiculous .

This was quite ridiculous , after all, merely a legal transaction.

Anyway, this is quite ridiculous .

Her thoughts were far too much on Alain and it was quite ridiculous .

The court found the idea of Mr Warner unconsciously communicating coded messages to Samuel's fellow criminals quite ridiculous .

slightly

My slight personal acquaintance with the subject of all this discouraging impersonal solemnity seemed slightly ridiculous .

This made her look slightly ridiculous and McKillop had to fight back a smile.

They are also slightly ridiculous and can turn anger and tears to laughter very quickly.

He was a weak man, and in some ways a slightly ridiculous one.

On the journey home he felt slightly ridiculous , like some broken-down knight preparing for a tournament.

so

I couldn't do anything so ridiculous as streaking cold-blooded!

This whole thing is just so ridiculous .

It was all so ridiculous , he thought, allowing himself to get involved with these motley characters.

She seemed so exposed, so ridiculous , he wanted to point and laugh.

In the cold light of day it all seemed so ridiculous .

Was it so ridiculous , then?

I mean, there's something so ridiculous about it all.

It was so ridiculous to think they should dry this up and make fields.

too

You thought it was just too ridiculous to be true?

Your story would sound too ridiculous to be believed.

No, that's too ridiculous .

Oh, sorry - that last one was too ridiculous .

totally

Which is, of course, totally ridiculous , when you look at it rationally.

And the action premise that completes this credo may seem totally ridiculous in these troubled times.

Why should it matter how many photos you had? Totally ridiculous things.

What a totally ridiculous dream - and about Fen of all people, the last person imaginable, a man she disliked.

Who turned the scene round, made it work so that the rest of the operetta is not totally ridiculous ?

utterly

How utterly ridiculous ! she chided herself sharply.

It was entirely against her will and utterly ridiculous , but she could not seem to stop doing it.

He looked utterly ridiculous , lounging untidily back against the door.

■ NOUN

idea

Implicit in the name is the ridiculous idea that you can only have fun on a funboard.

situation

But battle she must if she was to survive this ridiculous situation .

It was such a ridiculous situation .

thing

Of all the damned stupid, ridiculous things to have done!

You say the most ridiculous things .

Nancy's having hysterics and raving about a black ghost, of all ridiculous things .

What a ridiculous thing to think about a man she detested.

The fabric of our society would be seen to be the ridiculous thing it is.

We talked about how ridiculous things had become.

things

Of all the damned stupid, ridiculous things to have done!

You say the most ridiculous things .

Nancy's having hysterics and raving about a black ghost, of all ridiculous things .

We talked about how ridiculous things had become.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

from the sublime to the ridiculous

His paintings range from the sublime to the ridiculous.

After due consideration she decided to go from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Chelsea's capacity for lurching from the sublime to the ridiculous is a tradition.

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

She wore some sort of ridiculous cowgirl getup.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He considers such maneuverings a ridiculous way to run a government and still potentially hazardous to the credit markets here and abroad.

I remember the ridiculous plans such as the selective employment tax.

Jeanne Tripplehorn pairs with Dylan McDermott in this comedy about a ridiculous romantic and an utter realist brought together by destiny.

Now that is a ridiculous experiment, and impossible to do.

This should have been plainly ridiculous to the Elizabethan audience.

This whole thing is just so ridiculous .

While I do not agree with much of what Sinead says, I feel I must defend her from your ridiculous slurs.

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