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Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.

to style; to call. She named the child Ichabod. 1 Sam. iv. 21. Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work Confusion named. Milton.

Aridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes. Addison. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. Shak.

ate loudly; to extol; to praise. [Obs.] In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.

A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.

restricted the meaning of ridicule, which would properly extend over whole region of the ridiculous, -- the laughable, -- and we have narrowed it so that in common usage it mostly corresponds to "derision", which does indeed involve personal and offensive feelings. Hare. Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne,…

To make ridiculous; to ridicule. [Obs.] Chapman.

The quality or state of being ridiculous; ridiculousness; also, something ridiculous. [Archaic] Bailey.

To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at. To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest. Glanwill.

Obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying. The smutty joke, ridiculously lewd. Smollett. -- Smut"ti*ly, adv. -- Smut"ti*ness, n.

Ridiculously small; petty. "Snippety facts." London Spectator.

For that reason; therefore. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him. Milton.

Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. [R.]

a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. Milton.

ho not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous Dryden.