ridiculous — an adjective used to describe things that we deem “unworthy of serious consideration” or “laughable”
ridículo/ridícula — the Spanish masculine/feminine cognates of the same meaning.
This cognate duo comes to us from Latin’s ridiculus, which literally means “laughable,” and ridiculus comes from the Latin verb …
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