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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition: |
worthy of mockery; laughable and ridiculous.
He regretted his ludicrous attempt at poetry and turned his attention back to journalism .- synonyms:
- cockamamie, farcical, laughable, ridiculous
- similar words:
- absurd, asinine, crazy, idiotic, implausible, nonsensical, preposterous, untenable
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amusing, inane, zany |
adverb + (adj.)ludicrous
absolutely, bit, completely, equally, faintly, frankly, kind, patently, simply, somewhat, totally
(adj.)ludicrous
+ adverb
seriously
(adj.)ludicrous
+ noun
assertion, assumption, caricature, claim, display, extreme, gesture, hat, idea, irony, lie, notion, plot, proportion, proposition, salary, situation, statement, suggestion
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| derivations: |
ludicrously (adv.), ludicrousness (n.) |
The word ludicrous
contains the following parts:
lud, lus
Latin
root
that means to play
  Example words:
allude, collude, delude, disillusion, elude, illusion, illusive, interlude, ludicrous, postlude, prelude, prolusion, delusion, allusive, elusive
-ous, -ious
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means full of, characterized by
More about this word part:
The suffix "-ous
, -ious
" attaches to Latin, Greek, and native English roots
Example words:
adventurous, ambiguous, amorous, amorphous, anadromous, androgynous, anomalous, apetalous, apocarpous, apterous, aqueous, atrocious, auspicious, avaricious, azygous, captious, carnivorous, chromous, coterminous, covetous, curious, delicious, diadromous, diaphanous, dicephalous, dioecious, disingenuous, egregious, endogenous, enormous, epigynous, euphonious, extemporaneous, ferocious, fortuitous, generous, glorious, gracious, gregarious, heterogamous, heterogeneous, homogeneous, homogenous, homologous, homopterous, hydrous, hypogynous, illustrious, impecunious, impervious, incommodious, incongruous, inconspicuous, indecorous, infamous, infelicitous, innocuous, intravenous, isogenous, isomerous, joyous, judicious, laborious, ludicrous, lustrous, magnanimous, malicious, malodorous, monoclinous, monoecious, multiparous, nauseous, perigynous, poisonous, porous, precious, quadrumanous, ramous, rebellious, spacious, subaqueous, synchronous, tubuliflorous, unanimous, valorous, vicious, wondrous, xerophilous
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