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ridiculous, a.|rɪˈdɪkjuːləs|
Also 6 ridyculouse; β. 6–8 rediculous.
[ad. L. rīdiculus (see ridicule a.) or rīdiculōsus; cf. F. ridiculeux.]
1. a. Exciting ridicule or derisive laughter; absurd, preposterous, comical, laughable.
α1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. S j b, A subtile enemye was it..that prouided hym so ridyculouse and obprobriouse a falle. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1615/2 It is ridiculous & a very fond aunswere [1563 It is an answere to be laughed at]. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 258 We all obeyed this ridiculous custome, not to offend them. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 243/2 You are not unreasonable as some are, who think good advice ridiculous. 1711J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 16 We..send our Boys and Girls to learn French, a Custom..very ridiculous and nonsensical. 1745Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 21 (1748) IV. 155 The thing appeared to her so very ridiculous, that..she could not forbear bursting into a loud laughter. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 331 No tale was too ridiculous for momentary belief, if it accorded with the national anger. 1879S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Pal. x. 228 Gazelles sometimes occur, with ridiculous magnitude of horns. 1886Mabel Collins Prettiest Woman x, It was ridiculous to hurry away like a thief.
Comb.1859J. White Hist. France (1860) 106 A ridiculous-looking hollow mass composed of plates of iron.
β1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 63 You see nowe what homely and rediculous stuffe I still sende abroade. 1610Shakes. Temp. ii. ii. 169 A most rediculous Monster, to make a wonder of a poore drunkard. 1663Gerbier Counsel 14 Rediculous Ornaments. 1691L. Eachard Descr. Irel. 24 With great out-Crys, and abundance of rediculous Expostulations.
b. dial. (and U.S.). Outrageous, scandalous, shameful, etc.
1839[Sir G. C. Lewis] Hereford Gloss., Ridiculous, scandalous, morally wrong. 1841C. H. Hartshorne Salop. Antiq. 547 Ridiculous, taken frequently in the sense of indelicate. 1886Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XVII. 43 In the South we often say, ‘That's a ridiculous affair,’ when we really mean outrageous. 1893H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (ed. 2) 98, I never heard of such conduct. I call it right down ridiculous.
c. slang. Outstanding, excellent.
1959Jazz Summer 209 His technique is ridiculous! 1960D. Cerulli et al. Jazz Word 95 To a jazzman..ridiculous is wonderful. 1968Scottish Daily Mail 3 Jan. 6 Superlatives..gradually increased with the years into ‘out-of-sight’, ‘ridiculous’ and ‘unbelievable’.
2. a. absol. with the: That which is ridiculous.
1742Fielding J. Andrews Pref., The only source of the true Ridiculous..is affectation. 1795Paine Age of Reason (ed. 2) ii. 22 One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. iv, It is a very dangerous thing for a literary man to indulge his love for the ridiculous. 1863Sat. Rev. 13 June 755 If there is an air of the ridiculous in the business.
b. As adv. Ridiculously, absurdly. dial. and colloq.
1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. ix, It was ridiculous strong. 1834C. F. Hoffman Winter in West (1835) I. 270 Those Indians behaved most ridiculous. They dashed children's brains against the door-posts. 1976Daily Mirror 11 Mar. 24/2 Don't talk ridiculous!
3. Derisive, mocking. rare—1.
1771Luckombe Hist. Printing 132 Scurrilous pamphlets wrote..in a snarleing and ridiculous manner. |