ludicrous

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin lūdicruslbor. English ludicrous Learned borrowing from Latin lūdicrus. First attested in 1619.

1. Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.

   “He made a ludicrous attempt to run for office.”

   “Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.”