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#853. Ridiculousness. -- N. ridiculousness &c. adj.; comicality,
oddity &c. 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 [Horace]; rideret Heraclitus; du sublime au
ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [Napoleon].
#854. Fop. -- N. fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat|!;
exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town,
fast man; fribble, milliner|!; Jemmy Jessamy|!, carpet knight; masher,
dude.
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