Modifying Another Word

• faintly: Doesn't the money offered to her by all these men in suits who sell pumps seem faintly ludicrous?

• frankly: The sections of the film not about gambling seem frankly ludicrous.

• utterly: The quality of these books varies from the simply mediocre to the utterly ludicrous.

• absolutely: For someone to say I want to be sexual on Satan's side and godly is absolutely ludicrous.

• slightly: There is nothing shocking in this slightly ludicrous event.

• somewhat: It is a somewhat ludicrous undertaking, with many pitfalls the danger of treachery and the risk of ultimate failure in the quest.

Infinitive complement

• suggest: It is ludicrous to suggest that Jessica can move to Iran.

• think: It's sounds ludicrous to think that record could be 80 or 90 goals in 113 games but it's true.

• say: It's ludicrous to say they should be culled.

• have: It was ludicrous to have a major local derby game as a mid-week fixture in a ground with major road access problems.

Modifies a noun

• accusation: Please keep your ludicrous accusations to yourself in future.

• assertion: So we will sweep aside Labor's ludicrous assertion that Britain's streets are becoming safer than ever.

• proposition: This would have been a ludicrous proposition in the glow of last summer's Ashes victory.

• complexity: He's actually just trying to illustrate the ludicrous complexity of Gordo's tax credit scheme.

• situation: With any luck, this ludicrous situation will not last for many more years.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: For the college to let him go seems ludicrous.

• sound: On the one hand, I think that sounds pretty ludicrous.

• become: On film, however, the story quickly becomes ludicrous.

• look: Repeat to self: I do not look ludicrous.