Sample sentences for LUDICROUS

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Definition

absurd in an amusing way

Though she was serious, her suggestion was so ludicrous, I couldn't suppress a laugh.

ludicrous = absurd in an amusing way

ludicrous = absurd in an amusing way

The dead man, swinging with bended back, seemed to be obstinately tugging, in ludicrous and awful ways, for the possession of the flag.
Crane, Stephen -- The Red Badge of Courage
She chewed in church and on the bus;
It really was quite ludicrous!
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

ludicrous = ridiculous

Nothing could look more ludicrous than his forage-cap and his uniform.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

ludicrous = absurd in an amusing way

ludicrous = absurd in an amusing way

Fred and George, at least, thought the idea of his being Slytherin's heir was quite ludicrous.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

ludicrous = ridiculous or absurd in an amusing way

ludicrous = absurd in an amusing way

ludicrous = absurd in an amusing way

That is barely two years ago—and now here stands Territorial Kantorek, the spell quite broken, with bent knees, arms like pothooks, unpolished buttons and that ludicrous rig-out—an impossible soldier.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

ludicrous = absurd in an amusing way

My position struck him, too, as exquisitely ludicrous and embarrassing.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Notes from the Underground
Glaucon said, with a ludicrous earnestness: By the light of heaven, how amazing!
Plato -- The Republic
Now commenced a series of evolutions which even then seemed ludicrous in the extreme.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- A Princess of Mars
There was some- thing pitifully ludicrous about it.
Twain, Mark -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Strange to relate, this ludicrous accoutrement was far from moving me to laughter.
Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
" said he, "have not the most ludicrous things always happened to us old anchorites and saints?
Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None
it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion
The weeping old man with the cigar in his mouth was ludicrous.
Anderson, Sherwood -- Winesberg, Ohio
ludicrous green hair
And to an audience such anger would be highly ludicrous.
London, Jack -- Michael, Brother of Jerry

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