[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ridiculous \ridic"ulous\, a. l. ridiculosus, ridiculus, fr.
   ridere to laigh. cf. risible.
   1. fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy
      of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or
      behavior.
      1913 webster

            agricola, discerning that those little targets and
            unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become
            ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded
            three batavian cohorts . . . to draw up and come to
            handy strokes.                        --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. involving or expressing ridicule. r.
      1913 webster

            it provokes me to ridiculous smiling. --shak.
      1913 webster

   syn: ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd;
        preposterous. see ludicrous.
        1913 webster --- ridic"ulously, adv. --
        ridic"ulousness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
risible ludicrous ridic"ulously ridic"ulousness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ridiculous
     adj 1: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and
            unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting
            on in years"- dashiell hammett syn: pathetic, silly
     2: completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; "the absurd
        excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed
        idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical
        answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it
        is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous
        attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited
        assumption of universal interest in her rather dull
        children was ridiculous" syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory,
         idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous
     3: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the
        wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green
        hair" syn: farcical, ludicrous
see also:
pathetic silly absurd cockeyed derisory idiotic 
laughable ludicrous nonsensical preposterous farcical 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

98 moby thesaurus words for "ridiculous":
   a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, amusing, antic, barred,
   beyond belief, bizarre, closed-out, cockamamie, comic, comical,
   contrary to reason, crazy, doubtable, doubtful, droll, dubious,
   dubitable, eccentric, excluded, extravagant, fantastic, farcical,
   foolish, funny, grotesque, hard of belief, hard to believe,
   high-flown, hilarious, hopeless, humorous, implausible, impossible,
   improper, inane, inconceivable, incongruous, incredible, indecent,
   indelicate, insane, laughable, logically impossible, ludicrous,
   malodorous, mirthful, monstrous, nonsensical, not deserving belief,
   not possible, open to doubt, open to suspicion, outlandish,
   outrageous, outre, oxymoronic, paradoxical, passing belief,
   poppycockish, preposterous, priceless, problematic, prohibited,
   quaint, queer, questionable, quizzical, rich, risible, rough,
   ruled-out, screaming, self-contradictory, silly, staggering belief,
   stupid, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, unbecoming,
   unbelievable, unconvincing, undecorous, unearthly, ungodly,
   unimaginable, unseemly, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weird,
   whimsical, wild, witty, zany

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