Both Uses of
ludicrous
in
Jane Eyre
- I turned my face away to conceal a smile I could not suppress: there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne's earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress.†
p. 198.8
- "In course!" he exclaimed, with a twang of voice and a distortion of features equally fantastic and ludicrous.†
p. 259.8 *
Definition:
absurd in an amusing way