ludicrous
/ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
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."
- "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.”"
- "[…]to auert their conceits from the consideration of serious, and grauer matters, by feeding their humors, and delighting their fansies with such fabulous and ludicrous toyes."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/
- British English: /ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more ludicrous (comparative)
most ludicrous (superlative)