adjective
ludicrous
LOO-dih-kruhs
adjective
1
So absurd or unreasonable that it's almost funny.
"It's ludicrous to expect the report finished by tomorrow morning."
"The film's plot twists became increasingly ludicrous."
How to Use Ludicrous
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishRidiculous to the point of being laughable.
Common pairings
ludicrous claim
ludicrous idea
utterly ludicrous
Word Forms
more ludicrous comparative, most ludicrous superlative
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Etymology
A learned borrowing from Latin ludicrus, "playful" or "sportive," first recorded in English in 1619; it drifted from meaning "playful" to meaning "absurd."