'Ridiculousness' definitions:
Definition of 'ridiculousness'
(from WordNet)
noun
A message whose content is at variance with reason [syn: absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness]
Definition of 'Ridiculousness'
From: GCIDE
- Ridiculous \Ri*dic"u*lous\, a. [L. ridiculosus, ridiculus, fr. ridere to laigh. Cf. Risible.]
- 1. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior. [1913 Webster]
- Agricola, discerning that those little targets and unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded three Batavian cohorts . . . to draw up and come to handy strokes. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Involving or expressing ridicule. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- [It] provokes me to ridiculous smiling. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd; preposterous. See Ludicrous. [1913 Webster] --- {Ri*dic"u*lous*ly}, adv. -- {Ri*dic"u*lous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]