ludicrous
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Synonyms & Antonyms for ludicrous
Synonyms
antic, chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, humoristic, humorous, hysterical (also hysteric), killing, laughable, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious
Antonyms
humorless, lame, unamusing, uncomic, unfunny, unhumorous, unhysterical
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However, Le Graet insisted that homophobia is a problem in the entirety of France, so to suggest there is a just a problem in football is, to him, ludicrous. — SI.com, "Antoine Griezmann Insists Games Should Be Stopped if Racist or Homophobic Chanting Is Heard," 11 Sep. 2019 So the idea of being successful in Hollywood was ludicrous. — Simon Abrams, New York Times, "Sacha Baron Cohen Plays It Straight in ‘The Spy’," 6 Sep. 2019 To say that the Key deer are no longer in danger is ludicrous. — Dan Sweeney, sun-sentinel.com, "Key deer still deserve protection as endangered species, readers say," 19 Aug. 2019 But the idea in itself, as Diffie and others (including Matt Blaze, now the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown University) pointed out, was ludicrous even without the faulty LEAF. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?," 4 Aug. 2019 Its biggest selling points included a four-player cooperative design, a ludicrous number of procedurally generated guns, and a dark but deeply silly sense of humor. — Adi Robertson, The Verge, "Borderlands 3 has a billion guns, and its most dangerous weapon is vlogging," 14 Aug. 2019 This was allegedly done to curb the flow of untaxed income, a ludicrous claim, given the number of his cronies who sit in London and New York after defaulting on massive loans from government banks. — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, "India’s Looming Ethno-Nationalist Catastrophe," 7 Aug. 2019 Lawyers for Perry and her co-defendants said the plaintiffs' demands were based on ludicrous figures. — Staff And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, "'Dark Horse' lawsuit: Katy Perry, record company owe $2.78 million for stealing song," 1 Aug. 2019 So David Laws, then a Liberal Democrat MP, dispensed with the ludicrous notion that Boris Johnson might become prime minister one day. — The Economist, "Prime Minister Boris Johnson fulfils his dream," 23 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ludicrous.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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