Ridiculous
Ridiculous adjective - So foolish or pointless as to be worthy of scornful laughter.
Tongue-in-cheek and ridiculous are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tongue-in-cheek" instead an adjective "Ridiculous".
Tongue-in-cheek
Tongue-in-cheek adjective - Cleverly amusing in tone.
Ridiculous and tongue-in-cheek are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ridiculous" instead an adjective phrase "Tongue-in-cheek".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- antic and ridiculous
- antic and tongue-in-cheek
- whimsical and ridiculous
- whimsical and tongue-in-cheek
- frivolous and ridiculous
- frivolous and tongue-in-cheek
- amusing and ridiculous
- amusing and tongue-in-cheek
- facetious and ridiculous
- facetious and tongue-in-cheek
- humorous and ridiculous
- humorous and tongue-in-cheek
- witty and ridiculous
- witty and tongue-in-cheek
Both words in one sentence
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You Can't Fuck Osmosis Jones is a blog dedicated to tongue-in-cheek rants about cartoon characters where having a Perverse Sexual Lust for them would be especially impractical or ridiculous.
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This was deemed so ridiculous by fans that Big Finish constantly makes tongue-in-cheek references to it in other releases.
- The idea was created by Dwayne McDuffie in 2002, ironically as a tongue-in-cheek criticism of how seriously fans of comic books take continuity; he argued that, if one took continuity in television as seriously as it's taken in comics, it can lead to ridiculous extremes.
Source: The Verse
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