ludicrous

Definition

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

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lūdicrus. First attested in 1619.

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."