Ri*dic"u*lous (?), a.
[L. ridiculosus, ridiculus, fr.
ridere to laigh. Cf. Risible.]
1. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration;
as, a ridiculous dress or behavior.
Agricola, discerning that those little targets and unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded three Batavian cohorts . . .
to draw up and come to handy strokes.
Milton.
2. Involving or expressing ridicule. [r.]
[It] provokes me to ridiculous
smiling.
Shak. Syn.
-- Ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd; preposterous. See Ludicrous.
--- Ri*dic"u*lous*ly,
adv. -- Ri*dic"u*lous*ness, n.
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