Ludicrous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LUDICROUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• ridiculous
• so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing
• absurd or ridiculous
• Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive.
• broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
• incongruous;inviting ridicule
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity

Words related to LUDICROUS

farcical15 ludicrously17 ludicrousness16

Words that contain LUDICROUS

ludicrously17 ludicrousness16 ludicrousnesses18

How to use LUDICROUS in a sentence

• The whole scene was so ludicrous that Ida, despite her fears and disgust, could not help laughing hysterically.
• A thousand stories were always in circulation in camp of acts on his part illustrating his reckless disregard of the value of money, some ludicrous, and all eccentric and strange.
• Harold had mud all over his nose, and in general looked very ludicrous.
• To pretend that the aristocrat meets all classes at Oxford is too ludicrous to be worth discussion.
• From the miserable painting, the faces often had an expression that would have been exceedingly ludicrous, if the shock given to our feelings of reverence were not predominant.
• On this occasion his struggle to retain the grave and overcome the ludicrous was unavailing.
• He had noticed in him, an air of melancholy, which even ludicrous events on the journey had dissipated, but for the moment.
• It was one of the ultimate constituents of the ludicrous, beyond which it is useless to inquire.
• Full justice he did to the pathos, but he also shook with mirth over the ludicrous.
• The suggestion is too ludicrous for serious discussion.
• The folly which acute learned wise men will be guilty of the moment they turn to theological subjects, where they do not allow reason to act, is both ludicrous and melancholy.
• The individual no longer sees things as they are, but he sees others and himself in strange, horrible, or ludicrous shapes.
• He was humorous, and yet the consciousness of his own dignity often restrained his enjoyment of the ludicrous.
• His sense of the ludicrous saved him from the disagreeable ostentation of powers which were never applied to express bitterness of feeling or to edge angry satire.
• Yesterday, in crossing the Tuileries, I was witness of a ludicrous scene that sufficiently illustrates what I mean.
• Our old Scottish songs and ballads especially, delight in representing it as a state of ludicrous misery and discomfort.
• The idea of their assaulting, with any prospect of success, any positions held by artillery, is simply ludicrous.
• As he lay with his black face and his white, grizzled poll, he was a most ludicrous spectacle.
• V Definition of the Ludicrous, and a brief sketch of the rise of Comedy.
• But he also knew that there is but a thin dividing line between savage pomp and ludicrous ostentation.
• Strange and ludicrous are the changes in human affairs.
• At Thankful Rest the art collection consisted of a few family portraits, ludicrous alike in execution and in colouring.
• His one advantage was that he knew his weakness and the enemy did not, and he had used this knowledge with almost ludicrous success.
• The touch must be light, and an idea or event, to be ludicrous, must not be of grave import.
• The following ludicrous instance of their enthusiasm in this respect, occurred one day while the band were playing on the quarter-deck of the Eden.
• Sometimes, the incongruity reaches the point of the ludicrous.
• And yet the reasons are utterly ludicrous which they give in confirmation of their own notions about the honourable and good.
• Domestic jealousy is a passion which admits of a great diversity of subjects, from the tragic or the pathetic, to the absurd and the ludicrous.
• This estrangement is sometimes carried to an extreme almost ludicrous.
• His education was so very defective, that his orthography was almost ludicrous, and his general reading amounted to almost nothing.
• In any case it accorded neither with the part I was playing nor with my sense of the ludicrous to be discovered by the hotel domestics hiding in a refuse bin.

Similar words containing LUDICROU without suffix s

ludicrously17 ludicrousness16 ludicrousnesses18

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