adj.; extravagance, drollery.
farce, comedy; burlesque &c (ridicule) 856; buffoonery &c (fun)
840; frippery; doggerel verses; absurdity &c 497; bombast &c
(unmeaning) 517; anticlimax, bathos; eccentricity, monstrosity &c
(unconformity) 83; laughingstock &c 857.
V. 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.
Adj. 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 &c (unconformable) 83; strange, outlandish, out of the way,
baroque, weird; awkward &c (ugly) 846.
extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated,
stilted, burlesque, mock heroic.
drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible &c
(unimportant) 643; doggerel; ironical &c (derisive) 856; risible.
Phr. risum teneatis amici [Lat.] [Horace]; rideret Heraclitus; du
sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [Lat.] [Napoleon].