ridiculous

  • (s) inspiring scornful pity
    • "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett
    pathetic, silly,
  • (s) incongruous;inviting ridicule
    • 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
    derisory, laughable, nonsensical, preposterous, absurd, cockeyed, idiotic, ludicrous,
  • (s) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
    • the wild farcical exuberance of a clown
    • ludicrous green hair
    farcical, ludicrous,

Synonyms

pathetic silly derisory laughable nonsensical preposterous absurd cockeyed idiotic ludicrous farcical

Words of close approximity

ridiculously ridiculousness