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{
"term": "ridiculous",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "very silly or unreasonable",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I look ridiculous in this hat."
},
{
"text": "Don't be ridiculous! You can't pay £50 for a T-shirt!"
},
{
"text": "It was ridiculous that this should be so difficult to say."
},
{
"text": "They ate and drank a ridiculous amount."
},
{
"text": "The whole idea was patently ridiculous."
},
{
"text": "The whole situation appealed to her sense of the ridiculous."
},
{
"text": "This is getting ridiculous!"
},
{
"text": "Don't be so ridiculous!"
},
{
"text": "It's ridiculous to suggest that she was involved in anything illegal."
},
{
"text": "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."
}
],
"synonyms": "absurd, ludicrous",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["really", "absolutely", "completely"],
"phrases": ["a sense of the ridiculous"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to describe a situation in which something serious, important or of high quality is followed by something silly, unimportant or of poor quality",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdɪkjələs/",
"audio": "ri/ridiculous/ridiculous__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdɪk/",
"audio": "ri/ridiculous/ridic__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdɪkjələs/",
"audio": "ri/ridiculous/ridiculous__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdɪk/",
"audio": "ri/ridiculous/ridic__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from Latin ridiculosus, from ridiculus ‘laughable’, from ridere ‘to laugh’."
}