| 释义 |
riˈdiculousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being ridiculous; absurdity.
1603Bp. Hall Serm. Wks. 1837 V. 13 The Church of Rome shall vie..with them, whether for number or for ridiculousness. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 178 Designed by their ridiculousness to make their readers sport. 1735Bolingbroke On Parties 118 They would prove that the Form of our Government is defective to a Degree of Ridiculousness. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. vii. xciii. 428 Frugality to a degree of ridiculousness. 1843Miall in Nonconf. III. 744 A certain air of ridiculousness and burlesque. 1875G. Macdonald Malcolm II. xix. 254 Florimel..attempted a laugh at the ridiculousness of her late situation. |