ludicrous
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
ludicrous
- Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny.
- He made a ludicrous attempt to run for office.
- Amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter ↗", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
- Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter ↗", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
- (idiotic or unthinkable) laughable, ridiculous
- (idiotic or unthinkable) ludicrously, ludicrousness
- French: absurde
- German: aberwitzig
- Italian: ridicolo
- Portuguese: ridículo
- Russian: неле́пый
- Spanish: irrisorio, ridículo, disparatado, descabellado
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