Word Finder - ridiculous

definition

Deserving of ridicule; foolish; absurd.

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It's ridiculous to charge so much for a little souvenir.

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Astonishing; unbelievable.

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Gaines is a classic motor player with a low center of gravity and ridiculous strength.

It was ridiculous to be so frightened of something.

It was ridiculous to fight with him this way.

Sometimes it took a ridiculous simile to make a point.

It was ridiculous to be suspicious of him.

It was ridiculous to stand here, trying to match wits with such a polished salesman.

It was as ridiculous as it was embarrassing.

It was ridiculous - sending him into town after such personal items when she was perfectly capable of going by herself.

He was ridiculous, and unpleasantly sarcastic, but yet he inspired involuntary respect by his boundless devotion to an idea.

He unexpectedly felt himself ridiculous, weak, and alone, with no ground to stand on.

It was ridiculous to live in a 3-bedroom apartment and only use two bedrooms.

He fought with unrestrained fury, not wanting to stop and think of the most ridiculous thought ever to cross his mind.

Deidre couldn't manage a response to such a ridiculous statement.

Is that why you want to take me up there - to show your mother how ridiculous the thought of any hanky panky is?

How ridiculous would she seem?

This did not make Mary Tudor any more friendly,and,although the story that Elizabeth favoured Courtenay and that Mary was jealous is a ridiculous fiction, the Spaniards cried loud and long for Elizabeth's execution.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.

The chroniclers ascribe the first war with Florence, which broke out in 1222, to a most ridiculous motive.

Instead of studying the general welfare, they wrung from exhausted states the largest possible revenue to support a lavish and ridiculous expenditure.

It was ridiculous... and exciting... bold and impulsive - everything she didn't want to be.

He adlibbed a ridiculous story of wanting do a magazine piece on Shipton and began to flatter the listener, saying he was recommended as a prime source of accurate information.

Everyone thought she was being immature about this – as if there were something ridiculous about the idea of a 25-year-old virgin.

Such an idea is justly stigmatized by Mommsen as ridiculous, and reflecting a discredit as unfounded as it is unjust on the imperial police of the capital.

These evil tendencies in the popular presentation of Christianity undoubtedly begot in Shaftesbury's mind a certain amount of repugnance and contempt to some of the doctrines of Christianity itself; and, cultivating, almost of set purpose, his sense of the ridiculous, he was too apt to assume towards such doctrines and their teachers a tone of raillery.

The occupation of Monterey for a few hours by a Buenos Aires privateer (1818) was the only incident of actual war that California saw in all these years; and it, in truth, was a ridiculous episode, fit introduction to the bloodless play-wars, soon to be inaugurated in Californian politics.

It was a very small, very disingenuous, inevitably an anomalous, and in the vanity of proclamations and other concomitant incidents rather a ridiculous affair; and fortunately for the dignity of history - and for Fremont - it was quickly merged in a larger question, when Commodore John Drake Sloat (1780-1867) on the 7th of July raised the flag of the United States over Monterey, proclaiming California a part of the United States.

The writer of the Kitab-al-Fihrist says he had been assured that Jaber only wrote one book and even that he never existed at all, but these statements he scouts as ridiculous, and expressing the conviction that Jaber really did exist, and that his works were numerous and important, goes on to quote the titles of some 500 treatises attributed to him.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you.

The division of the line into equal sections of 200 kilometres apiece produced at once a somewhat ridiculous result.

But it could not be laid hold of, and the charge of treason being too ridiculous to be proceeded with, More's name was struck out of the bill.

It was a ridiculous thought and she was letting her imagination run wild.

That's a ridiculous age to take up skiing!

Dean managed to whistle down a young boy who agreed to use his snow blower on Dean's unfinished sidewalk, for an amount Dean considered ridiculous, but he knew he needed to get up to snuff on Shipton's fall before he was totally on the defensive.

Everywhere there was a growing belief that a man's religious tenets were his private affair, with which the state had nothing to do; and that a government only made itself ridiculous if it attempted to lay down which creeds were true and which were false.

This sounds ridiculous, you do n't know people, you 've not got the finances or the contacts.

That's not ridiculous, and it's completely possible.

The whole concept is ridiculous.

You want me to believe you killed my lover to protect me, never told me she was a demon-spy, and you went willingly to Hell.  It's ridiculous, Rhyn, even for you!

This was getting ridiculous.

Celsus indeed says that the Jews are almost as ridiculous as the foes they attack; the latter said the saviour from Heaven had come, the former still looked for his coming.

She felt that the allurements instinct had formerly taught her to use would now be merely ridiculous in the eyes of her husband, to whom she had from the first moment given herself up entirely--that is, with her whole soul, leaving no corner of it hidden from him.

I hope you have a good brief, you could be sued making ridiculous accusations like that.

It seems that a key part of progress having the guts to never dismiss an anomaly, mistake or seemingly ridiculous assertion.

Growing up in a sleepy town in Devon, he spent most of his time perfecting a ridiculous amount of useless talents.

Then the whole film has had a ridiculous techno soundtrack put on top of everything else.

Some believe that the notion of emotional catharsis is ridiculous.

The ways men flirt can range from the sublime to the ridiculous.

He almost chortled at the ridiculous thought, wishing someone was there with him to tell.

Kris had never heard anything so ridiculous.

Alex concocted this ridiculous trip to coax Katie to come back to Houston.

The ridiculous subject was both mind stimulating and enjoyable.