preposterousness
61silliness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Foolish behavior: absurdity, folly, foolery, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsense, preposterousness, senselessness, tomfoolery, zaniness. Informal: craziness. See ABILITY …
62zaniness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality of being laughable or comical: comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, farcicality, funniness, humor, humorousness, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, ludi crousness, ridiculousness, wit,… …
63preposterous — pre|pos|ter|ous [prıˈpɔstərəs US ˈpa:s ] adj formal [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: praeposterus with the back part in front , from prae ( PRE ) + posterus ( POSTERIOR1)] completely unreasonable or silly = ↑absurd ▪ The whole idea sounds… …
64ridiculousness — ri·dic·u·lous·ness || rɪ dɪkjÉ™lÉ™snɪs / kjÊŠl n. absurdity, ludicrousness, preposterousness, state of being worthy of ridicule …
65preposterous — adjective utterly absurd or ridiculous. Derivatives preposterously adverb preposterousness noun Origin C16: from L. praeposterus reversed, absurd (from prae before + posterus coming after ) + ous …
66extravagance — n. 1. Excess, exorbitance, enormity, unreasonableness, preposterousness. 2. Irregularity, wildness, folly, excess, absurdity. 3. Prodigality, profusion, waste, lavish expenditure …
67preposterous — adjective formal 1 completely unreasonable; absurd: The whole idea sounds absolutely preposterous! 2 extremely unusual and silly: Look at that preposterous car! preposterously adverb preposterousness noun (U) …
68absurdity — noun Milosevic spurned the evidence linking him to countless atrocities, calling the charges a supreme absurdity Syn: preposterousness, ridiculousness, ludicrousness, incongruity, inappropriateness, risibility, idiocy, stupidity, foolishness,… …
69bombast — bombast, rhapsody, rant, fustian, rodomontade all designate a style of speech or writing characterized by high flown pomposity or pretentiousness of language disproportionate to the thought or subject matter. All of them are derogatory in some… …
70laughable — laughable, risible, ludicrous, ridiculous, comic, comical, farcical, droll, funny are comparable when they mean provoking or evoking laughter or mirth. Laughable is the general term for whatever is fit to provoke laughter {mod ern audiences do… …
