Definition of Ridiculous

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Definition of Ridiculous
	Ridiculous Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior. Involving or expressing ridicule. Related Definitions: Absurd, And, As, Behavior, Consideration, Dress, Excite, Expressing, Fitted, Involving, Laughable, Of, Or, Ridicule, Ridiculous, Serious, To, Unworthy

Ridiculous Quotations

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
Rodney Dangerfield

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
Voltaire

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Lenny Bruce

This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.
Bill Maher

Ridiculous Translations

ridiculous in Danish is latterlig
ridiculous in Dutch is gek, belachelijk, lachwekkend, mal
ridiculous in Italian is ridicolo, idiotico
ridiculous in Latin is ridiculum

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