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/ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/ · adjective
Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd..
He made a ludicrous attempt to run for office.
Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
[…] That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.
The government responds to such news with its usual ludicrous evasions: “I don’t deny there are costs to a decision like Brexit,” said Jeremy Hunt in November, “but there are also opportunities, and you have to see it in the round.”
Use ludicrous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ludicrous means Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd..
Common synonyms include laughable, ridiculous, risible, derisory.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He made a ludicrous attempt to run for office.
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