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Ridiculous

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means so absurd or unreasonable as to invite mockery or laughter
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Stage 1 of 3
ridere
Latin · ancient
"to laugh"
to laugh
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Stage 2 of 3
ridiculosus
Latin · ancient
"causing laughter, absurd"
causing laughter, absurd, from ridere
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Stage 3 of 3
ridiculous
English · 1500s
"deserving or inviting mockery, absurd"
settled as the English word for something deserving mockery or absurd
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