Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers Section II. Personal Affections 2. Discriminative Affections 853. Ridiculousness.
NOUN: RIDICULOUSNESS &c. adj.; comicality, oddity &c. adj.; drollery; farce, comedy; burlesque (ridicule ) [See Ridicule ]; buffoonery (fun ) [See Amusement ]; frippery; amphigory or amphigouri, doggerel (or doggrel) verses; bull, Irish bull, Hibernicism, Hibernianism, Spoonerism; absurdity [See Absurdity ].unmeaning ) [See Unmeaningness ]; anticlimax, bathos; monstrosity (unconformity ) [See Unconformity ]; laughingstock [See Laughingstock ]; screamer or scream [slang ]. VERB: BE RIDICULOUS &c. adj.; pass from the sublime to the ridiculous; make one laugh; play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity; ride -, play- the goat [colloq. ].MAKE RIDICULOUS, make a goat of [colloq. ], make a fool of, play a joke on. ADJECTIVE: RIDICULOUS, ludicrous, comic or comical, drollish, waggish, quizzical, droll, funny, laughable, risible, farcical, screaming; serio-comic, serio-comical; tragi-comic, tragi-comical; pour rire [F. ].ODD, grotesque; whimsical, - as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum [slang ], quaint, bizarre; eccentric (unconformable ) [See Unconformity ]; strange, outlandish, out-of-the-way, baroque, rococo; awkward (ugly ) [See Ugliness ].EXTRAVAGANT, outré [F. ], monstrous, preposterous, absurd, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic.TRIVIAL, doggerel or doggrel, gimcrack, contemptible (unimportant ) [See Unimportance ].DERISIVE, ironical [See Ridicule ]. QUOTATIONS: Risum teneatis amici?—Horace
Rideret Heraclitus.
Du sublime au ridicule il n’y a qu’un pas.—Napoleon
Oh, let’s be kings in a humble way.—Gilbert
I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here.—Holmes
