Ludicrous

Something that’s “ludicrous” (LOO-dih-krus) – from the Latin for “to play” – is laughable because of its obvious absurdity or incongruity.

Example (as used by Bruce Handy in a New York Times review of Have You Seen…? by David Thomson ): “Thomson has set himself an almost ludicrous task and pulled it off: He has written a volume of 1,000 short essays, each 500 or so words long and devoted to a single film, which in sum constitute both a de facto history of the art form and a snob-friendly, intellectually luxe consumer guide.”

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