ridiculous
/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ adjective B1- Deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd. · That hairstyle looks ridiculous.· It's ridiculous to charge so much for a little souvenir.
- Astonishing, extreme, unbelievable. · In a ridiculous feat of engineering, the team can calculate the difference in arrival time to within one-tenth of a nanosecond.· Gaines is a classic motor player with a low center of gravity and ridiculous strength.
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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
He moved about in so utterly ridiculous a manner that the Beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs and drove him out of the assembly.
An old sly Fox, seeing this, said, “May I never make myself so ridiculous as you do in your pride and self-conceit; for even though you have the size of a lion among wolves, in a herd of lions you are definitely a wolf.”
Matthew is a most ridiculous man.”
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