{
    "term": "ridiculous",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very silly or unreasonable",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I look ridiculous in this hat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't be ridiculous! You can't pay £50 for a T-shirt!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was ridiculous that this should be so difficult to say."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They ate and drank a ridiculous amount."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whole idea was patently ridiculous."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whole situation appealed to her sense of the ridiculous."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is getting ridiculous!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't be so ridiculous!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's ridiculous to suggest that she was involved in anything illegal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "absurd, ludicrous",
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["really", "absolutely", "completely"],
                "phrases": ["a sense of the ridiculous"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to describe a situation in which something serious, important or of high quality is followed by something silly, unimportant or of poor quality",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈdɪkjələs/",
                "audio": "ri/ridiculous/ridiculous__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈdɪk/",
                "audio": "ri/ridiculous/ridic__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈdɪkjələs/",
                "audio": "ri/ridiculous/ridiculous__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈdɪk/",
                "audio": "ri/ridiculous/ridic__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from Latin ridiculosus, from ridiculus ‘laughable’, from ridere ‘to laugh’."
}