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A clown wearing a hat of a ridiculously small and incongruous size. The ridiculous often has extreme incongruity (things that are not thought to belong next to each other) or inferiority, e.g., "when something that was dignified is reduced to a ridiculous position (here noting the element of the incongruous), so that laughter is most intense when we escape from a 'coerced solemnity'."
In specialized usage, absurdity is related to extremes in bad reasoning or pointlessness in reasoning; ridiculousness is related to extremes of incongruous juxtaposition, laughter, and ridicule; and nonsense is related to a lack of meaningfulness. Absurdism is a concept in philosophy related to the notion of absurdity.
Ridiculousness may refer to: The ridiculous, that which is highly incongruous or inferior; Absurdity; Nonsense; Ridiculousness, an American comedy clip show
Talk about ridiculousness! MTV host Rob Dyrdek has been in the entertainment industry for a long time, starting off as a professional skateboarder as a teenager. Over time, he became a reality TV ...
To be ridiculous is to be highly incongruous or inferior.. Ridiculous may also refer to: . Ridiculous, an album by the British New Wave group Squeeze; Ridiculous, a 2006 comedy album by Norm Macdonald
Some words are humorous not necessarily because of their pronunciation, but because of (1) the absurdity of their own meanings (for example, centicameral, which would refer to a legislature composed of 100 chambers or houses, but its humor derives from the conceptual ridiculousness of such a governmental institution) or (2) the absurdity of the ...
Synonyms; Antonyms; Hyponyms ('play' lists several subtypes of play, including 'passion play') Hypernyms ('daisy' is listed as a type of 'flower') Constituents (under 'forest', listed parts include 'tree' and 'underbrush') Words describing things that might be thereby constituted
Skin is in! There have been no shortage of wardrobe malfunctions in 2017, and we have stars like Bella Hadid, Chrissy Teigen and Courtney Stodden to thank for that.