0 stupid or unreasonable and deserving to be laughed at: --
a ludicrous idea/suggestion
1 ridiculous or foolish; unreasonable or unsuitable: --
The idea, when analyzed, becomes ludicrous.
Since thesis 6 requires that this ludicrous position be embraced, none of us can reasonably view it as a live option - however much we might wish it were true.
Jocularity seems to be in the ear of the listener, and what the 18th century found ludicrous was no laughing matter at the end of the 19th.
It is thus high time the message that human reasoning is "ludicrous," "indefensible," and "self-defeating" be counterbalanced.
Noting its ' ' sudden eminence, ' ' he attributed this to its ' ' ludicrous and cool replay of the forms of the hot media of photo, radio, and film.
It seemed ludicrous to him, a practical man of the theatre, that other ways were excluded.
There is no evidence of government involvement with such ludicrous notions.
This is a ludicrous position no egalitarian accepts.