It's ludicrous to continue business operations while selling off bit by bit the land on which your business depends.
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Ludicrous
//ˈluː.dɪ.kɹəs//
Synonyms for "ludicrous" (84 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Adjective(2 words)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (42)
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Synonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
4 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
60 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- γελοῖος adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Bulgarian
2 entries- нелеп adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- смехотворен adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Catalan
1 entries- ridícul adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 滑稽的 adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- 荒唐的 adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Cornish
1 entries- hwarthus adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Czech
2 entries- absurdní adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- směšný adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Finnish
4 entries- absurdi adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- huvittava adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- idioottimainen adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- järjetön adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
French
1 entries- absurde adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Galician
1 entries- ridículo adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
German
3 entries- aberwitzig adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- absurd adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- lächerlich adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Greek
2 entries- γελοίος adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- σαχλός adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Hebrew
1 entries- מגוחך adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Hindi
1 entries- हास्यास्पद adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Hungarian
1 entries- nevetséges adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Indonesian
1 entries- konyol adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Italian
1 entries- ridicolo adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Māori
2 entries- kūrapa adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- nenekara adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- latterlig adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- lachrich adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Polish
4 entries- absurdalny adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- bezsensowny adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- groteskowy adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- idiotyczny adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Portuguese
1 entries- ridículo adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Romanian
2 entries- absurd adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- ridicol adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Russian
3 entries- абсу́рдный adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- неле́пый adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- смехотво́рный adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- amaideach adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Slovak
2 entries- absurdný adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- chorý adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Spanish
4 entries- absurdo adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- descabellado adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- disparatado adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- irrisorio adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Swedish
3 entries- absurd adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- löjlig adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- skrattretande adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Ukrainian
2 entries- куме́дний adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- смішни́й adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Welsh
3 entries- chwerthinllyd adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- digrif adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
- ysmala adj (idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
This is ludicrous.
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That's ludicrous.
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Please keep your ludicrous accusations to yourself in future.
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