Ludicrous

Quick meaning: Ludicrous is an adjective meaning Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.

Meaning

Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.

Example Sentences

He made a ludicrous attempt to run for office.

[…] 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.”

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.

Synonyms for ludicrous

Depending on context, synonyms include laughable, ridiculous, risible, derisory, absurd, preposterous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ridiculous, derisory, farcical, humourous, preposterous, humorous.

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