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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Deserving or inspiring ridicule; absurd, preposterous, or silly. See Synonyms at foolish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Worthy of ridicule or contemptuous laughter; exciting derision; amusingly absurd; preposterous.
  2. Expressive of ridicule; derisive; mocking.
  3. Abominable; outrageous; shocking.
  4. Synonyms Funny, Laughable, etc. (see ludicrous), absurd, preposterous, farcical.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Deserving of ridicule; foolish; absurd.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration.
  2. adj. rare Involving or expressing ridicule.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. inspiring scornful pity
  2. adj. incongruous;inviting ridicule
  3. adj. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce

Etymologies

  1. From Latin ridiculus ("laughable, ridiculous"); see ridicule. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin rīdiculus, laughable, from rīdēre, to laugh. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • brtom Of the human form especially, it is so great it must never be made ridiculous. Whitman, Preface 1855 Dec 9, 2006

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