ridiculousness

Roget-categorie 853

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections

#853. Ridiculousness

zelfstandig naamwoord

ridiculousness etc. adj. — comicality, oddity etc. adj. — extravagance, drollery.
farce, comedy — burlesque etc. (ridicule) 856 — buffoonery etc. (fun) 840 — frippery — doggerel verses — absurdity etc. 497 — bombast etc. (unmeaning) 517 — anticlimax, bathos — eccentricity, monstrosity etc. (unconformity) 83 — laughingstock etc. 857.

werkwoord

be ridiculous etc. adj. — pass from the sublime to the ridiculous — make one laugh — play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

ridiculous, ludicrous — comical — droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd — whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear — fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre — screaming — eccentric etc. (unconformable) 83 — strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird — awkward etc. (ugly) 846.
extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic.
drollish — seriocomic, tragicomic — gimcrack, contemptible etc. (unimportant) 643 — doggerel — ironical etc. (derisive) 856 — risible.

uitdrukking

risum teneatis amici [Lat.] [Horace]; rideret Heraclitus — du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [Lat.] [Napoleon].

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