# ridiculous

Pronunciation: US say "ri-DIK-yuh-luhs" /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/; UK say "ri-DIK-yuu-luhs" /ɹɪˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs/

## Adjective

1. Deserving to be laughed at; foolish or absurd.
   - Simple: So silly or foolish that people want to laugh at it.
   - _The committee dismissed the proposal as ridiculous and poorly thought out._
   - _It felt ridiculous to apologize for something he had never actually done._
2. Astonishing or extreme to an almost unbelievable degree. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: So great or extreme that it is hard to believe.
   - _The new phone has ridiculous battery life: three full days on a single charge._
   - _Traffic was ridiculous this morning, and the drive downtown took twice as long._

## Origin

Borrowed from Latin rīdiculus ("laughable, ridiculous"); equivalent to ridicule plus the suffix -ous.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/ridiculous (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).