Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Ridiculousness

Nouns
Verbs
  • be ridiculous etc. adj.
  • 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 etc. (unconformable) Unconformity
  • strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird
  • awkward etc. (ugly) Ugliness. extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic. drollish
  • seriocomic, tragicomic
  • gimcrack, contemptible etc. (unimportant) Unimportance
  • doggerel
  • ironical etc. (derisive) Ridicule
  • risible.
Phrases
  • rideret Heraclitus