ludicrous

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I pick this topic because of its ludicrous nature.

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Quick take

broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"

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adjective

broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"

adjective

incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ludicrous.

adjective

broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"

adjective

Example sentences

I pick this topic because of its ludicrous nature.

First, you make ludicrous demands, then when you later change your demands to be merely ridiculous, your opponents think they've scored a win.

I think it's actually kind of ludicrous to claim that we have somehow "lost" the technology of the Apollo program.

To expect someone to shop around until they find an equilibrium between supply and demand in that situation is ludicrous.

The American health-care system is ludicrous!My girlfriend and I are from Europe and we have been in the US for a year now while she finishes her university degree.

But again, while most American software developers would love to have more vacation, I've heard them also repeat ludicrous things about how they can "barely survive on $60k/year".

It's ludicrous that it's even necessary to paint the archetypical "Google chef" as someone who daringly sacrifices for their scrappy company for them to be worthy of windfall profits.

In his dream he finds himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory....Since musicians are known to set down their ideas in the form of sheet music, these curious black dots and lines must constitute the “language of music.” It is imperative that students become fluent in this language if they are to attain any degree of musical competence; indeed, it would be ludicrous to expect a child to sing a song or play an instrument without having a thorough grounding in music notation and theory.