Modifying Another Word

• faintly: The whole situation suddenly seemed quite amusing, faintly ridiculous, and I was so bored with all the tantrums.

• patently: Now you have your say... Is our choice patently ridiculous?

• frankly: He covers each subject extraordinarily well and isn't afraid to ridicule the frankly ridiculous while finding merit in the strangely compelling.

• utterly: The notion that the shields were " provided simply for decoration " is too utterly ridiculous to even bother going to the effort to.

• plainly: It's plainly ridiculous to imagine such people will fight for our interests.

• absolutely: What I find absolutely ridiculous is the right hon.

Infinitive complement

• imagine: It's plainly ridiculous to imagine such people will fight for our interests.

• suggest: It is absolutely ridiculous to suggest that they are.

• think: It's ridiculous to think of adopting another child when one can't provide for one's own.

• expect: AMC are a slow burn band, which is why it was always ridiculous to expect them to sell a lot of records.

Modifies a noun

• notion: Enough time passes to get such a ridiculous notion out of my head.

• antic: When compared with some of the ridiculous antics going on over at rival networks ( Desperate Housewives, anyone?

• accusation: I hope you have a good brief, you could be sued making ridiculous accusations like that.

• assertion: It seems that a key part of progress having the guts to never dismiss an anomaly, mistake or seemingly ridiculous assertion.

• rumor: He was quick to dismiss these as ridiculous rumors.

• amount: Growing up in a sleepy town in Devon, he spent most of his time perfecting a ridiculous amount of useless talents.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Now I look back, it does seem rather ridiculous.

• appear: He looks askance at the minutiae to which habit and social decorum usually blind us, reframing them so they appear ridiculous, shocking.

• look: There are many people who look ridiculous in a dress which is merely a short tunic.

• sound: This sounds ridiculous, you don't know people, you've not got the finances or the contacts.