ridiculousness
Roget category 853
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections
#853.
Ridiculousness
noun
ridiculousness
etc.
adj. —
comicality,
oddity
etc.
adj. —
extravagance,
drollery.
farce,
comedy —
burlesque
etc.
(ridicule)
856 —
buffoonery
etc.
(fun)
840 —
frippery —
doggerel verses —
absurdity
etc.
497 —
bombast
etc.
(unmeaning)
517 —
anticlimax,
bathos —
eccentricity,
monstrosity
etc.
(unconformity)
83 —
laughingstock
etc.
857.
verb
be ridiculous
etc.
adj. —
pass from the sublime to the ridiculous —
make one laugh —
play the fool,
make a fool of oneself,
commit an absurdity.
adjective
ridiculous,
ludicrous —
comical —
droll,
funny,
laughable,
pour rire,
grotesque,
farcical,
odd —
whimsical,
whimsical as a dancing bear —
fanciful,
fantastic,
queer,
rum,
quizzical,
quaint,
bizarre —
screaming —
eccentric
etc.
(unconformable)
83 —
strange,
outlandish,
out of the way,
baroque,
weird —
awkward
etc.
(ugly)
846.
extravagant,
outre,
monstrous,
preposterous,
bombastic,
inflated,
stilted,
burlesque,
mock heroic.
drollish —
seriocomic,
tragicomic —
gimcrack,
contemptible
etc.
(unimportant)
643 —
doggerel —
ironical
etc.
(derisive)
856 —
risible.
phrase
risum teneatis amici [Lat.]
[Horace];
rideret Heraclitus —
du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [Lat.]
[Napoleon].
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