The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ludicrous \Lu"di*crous\, a. [L. ludicrus, or ludicer, from ludus play, sport, fr. ludere to play.]
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Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.
--Broome.A chapter upon German rhetoric would be in the same ludicrous predicament as Van Troil's chapter on the snakes of Iceland, which delivers its business in one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in Iceland -- there are none.
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Ridiculously absurd.
Syn: Laughable; sportive; burlesque; comic; droll; ridiculous.
Usage: Ludicrous, Laughable, Ridiculous. We speak of a thing as ludicrous when it tends to produce laughter; as laughable when the impression is somewhat stronger; as ridiculous when more or less contempt is mingled with the merriment created. -- Lu"di*crous*ly, adv. -- Lu"di*crous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a ludicrous manner.
WordNet
adv. so as to arouse or deserve laughter; "her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well" [syn: laughably, ridiculously, preposterously]
Usage examples of "ludicrously".
Minirodents, ludicrously befoamed, were dashing in all directions, many without jockeys.
I saw one man arched backwards, his head buried, doubtless with tongue in a cunny, his legs dangling down to the floor and his cock standing ludicrously erect.
On their heads, loud-colored taltries tapered to ludicrously long liripipes, which they draped about their shoulders like quiescent vipers.
He spun around and fell heavily on his side, then flopped to his back on the parquetry, his genitalia ludicrously exposed.
His gaze swept to Speckler, whose mouth seemed to loose itself from its hinges and flop ludicrously from side to side as he tried to utter something.
I saw one man arched backwards, his head buried, doubtless with tongue in a cunny, his legs dangling down to the floor and his cock standing ludicrously erect.
The whole room seemed ludicrously overdecorated and overstyled and overcivilized, given the issues at hand.
It occurs to Matt that the anomalous experience of travel by lightspeed ship, before the travelers had had any grasp of the notion that light had a speed at all, was probably responsible for the persistence of this entire ludicrously complicated cosmology.
Unbound, but ludicrously helpless simply because they were held and led by leashlike cords attached to their necks, wrists and ankles, Doc Savage and his five men were hauled ignominiously to the rostrum and boosted upon it.
Silvina gestured toward the study room, flicking her fingers at the scattered piles of records, the scrawls on the sandtable's surface, the half-empty wine sack with its pouring neck collapsed ludicrously to one side.
Their bodies were tall and ludicrously spindly, their limbs shriveled and their shoulders narrow.
Today, after having exhaustively examined ludicrously expensive rugs ranging from Turkomans to Safavids, with Vera finding none of them to be exactly what she had in mind, Jason was wild to get home and away from her.
After another ludicrously brief interval it was joined by electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—.
But only because the class of physical systems whose behavior depends on it is so ludicrously specific: the brains of mathematicians who are trying to validate the Wiles proof.