How do you pronounce ridiculous?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/.

ridiculous

/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English

Syllables: ridicu-lous
IPA: /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/

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Meaning

adj

Deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd.

adj

Astonishing, extreme, unbelievable.

Informal

Example Sentences

"That hairstyle looks ridiculous."
"It's ridiculous to charge so much for a little souvenir."
"You make ridiculous statements a lot, like saying that UFOs are real."
"All the characters he has imitated are of the heroic kind, excepting only one ridiculous perſonage, that he has but once exhibited, I mean Therʃites."
"[...] if you reprimand or punish them, be assured every one will consider you importunate as well as ridiculous."
"The novelist, whom people hardly believe, considering his pictures as ridiculous fancies, but who has devoted his life to explore in secret places; behind the curtain, where we cannot follow—where all is inaccessible to us."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, ridiculous”); Equivalent to ridicule + -ous.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/
British English: /ɹɪˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs/

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more ridiculous (comparative) most ridiculous (superlative) rediculous (alternative) radiculous (alternative)

Derived Forms

nonridiculous ridic ridiculously ridiculousness unridiculous

Frequently Paired Words

deride derision ridiculable ridicularity ridicule ridiculosity

Synonyms

silly willy nilly frivolous goofy funny humorous absurd odd surreal unreasonable Laputan cockamamie

Antonyms

straightforward serious somber solemn

Rhymes With

meticulous funiculus calyculus