Rĭ-dĭc'ū-lōŭs, a.
a. [Lat. ridiculosus, ridiculus, It. ridicoloso, Sp. ridiculoso. See supra.]
Sense 1. Fitted to excite ridicule; contemptible and laughable; as, a ridiculous dress; ridiculous behavior.
Agricola, discerning that those little targets and unwieldy glaives, ill pointed, would soon become ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded three Batavian cohorts . . . to draw up and come to handy strokes. Milton.
Sense 2. Involving or expressing ridicule or contemptuous laughter. [Rare.]
It provokes me to ridiculous smiling. Shak.
Synonyms—Ludicrous: laughable; risible; droll; absurd; preposterous. See LUDICROUS.