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ridiculousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humor |
| Synonyms: | bee, bent*, bias, caprice, character, comedy, comicality, comicalness, complexion, conceit, disposition, drollery, drollness, fancy, farcicality, frame of mind, funniness, humorousness, individualism, individuality, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludicrousness, makeup, mind, nature, notion, personality, propensity, quirk, spirits, strain, temper, tone, vagary, vein, whim, wit, wittiness, zaniness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Concept: | Ridiculousness. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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-nouns
ridiculousness; comicality, oddity; extravagance, drollery., farce, comedy; burlesque (ridicule); buffoonery (fun); frippery; doggerel verses; absurdity; bombast (unmeaning); anticlimax, bathos; monstrosity (unconformity); laughingstock.
-verbs
be ridiculous; pass from the sublime to the ridiculous; make one laugh; play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity.
-adjectives
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 (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque; awkward (ugly)., extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic., drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible (unimportant); doggerel; ironical (derisive); risible.
-phrases
risum teneatis amici [Horace]; rideret Heraclitus; du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [Napoleon].
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