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{
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"ludic":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": of, relating to, or characterized by play : playful":[
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"ludic behavior",
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"a ludic novel"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"For years, app developers have tried to include fun, ludic aspects to all kinds of apps, from education to fitness. \u2014 Elad Natanson, Forbes , 1 June 2021",
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"After your treatment, bliss out on the Relaxation Deck, which is wrapped by a natural spring and houses a ludic therapy pool featuring hydrotherapy, cold mist, hydro jets, pressure showers, and waterfalls. \u2014 Michelle Stansbury, Marie Claire , 3 Dec. 2020",
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"And some notable game-makers like Firaxis Games (Civilization) and 11-Bit Studios (This War of Mine) are drawing inspiration from climate-change to craft ludic dilemmas that force players to make radical decisions in the face of overwhelming odds. \u2014 Steven T. Wright, Ars Technica , 5 June 2020",
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"Its hallmarks are relatively simple to describe, belying its revolutionary impact: There are the great cascades of left-hand chords, less ludic than Thelonious Monk\u2019s surprise attacks but no less jagged or forceful. \u2014 David A. Graham, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2020",
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"This ludic approach makes for some awkward challenges for the reader, who meets Edison as an old man, his children as adults and his second wife before his first. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Nov. 2019",
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"And yet, with its ludic meta-fictionality and the self-conscious construction of characters, the novel cleverly dodges knowable reality, circumventing the question of authenticity altogether. \u2014 Hermione Hoby, The New Yorker , 3 July 2019",
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"At its best, the show is a tribute to the ludic impulse that many of us carelessly abandoned back on the elementary school playground, the ability to make a branch or a puddle or a chunk of chalked up pavement into some new thing, some new world. \u2014 Alexis Soloski, New York Times , 10 July 2018",
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"Rather, Hunter says the leopard in the video is more likely getting excited about its meal, and seems to be pulling out the jawbone and wielding it in a ludic manner. \u2014 National Geographic , 19 June 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1940, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French ludique , from Latin ludus":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8l\u00fc-dik"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051714",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"ludicrous":{
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"antonyms":[
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"humorless",
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"lame",
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"unamusing",
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"uncomic",
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"unfunny",
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"unhumorous",
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"unhysterical"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity":[],
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": meriting derisive laughter or scorn as absurdly inept, false, or foolish":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Some of this censorship is trivial, some is ludicrous , and some is breathtaking in its power to dumb down what children learn in school. \u2014 Diane Ravitch , The Language Police , 2003",
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"The serious and the absurd have to be learnt together; but ludicrous theatrical buffoonery is fit only for foreigners. \u2014 Iris Murdoch , The Fire & the Sun , 1977",
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"The girl didn't comment on the steepness, or the brambles, or the fact that it seemed ludicrous to cart furniture through an apparently endless forest. \u2014 Anne Tyler , The Clock Winder , 1972",
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"Her teachers complained that instead of doing her sums she covered her slate with animals, the blank pages of her atlas were used to copy maps on, and caricatures of the most ludicrous description came fluttering out of all her books at unlucky moments. \u2014 Louisa May Alcott , Little Women , 1868-69",
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"the ludicrous sight of their teacher in a Halloween costume",
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"a ludicrous and easily detected attempt to forge his father's signature on a note to school",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Just like Fukuyama\u2019s early work, Rawls\u2019s lofty, universalist ideas were bolstered by the United States\u2019 fortunes and would have been ludicrous without them. \u2014 Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker , 25 May 2022",
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"As an actress now well-known for zingy one-liners and expansive anecdotes, Gilpin thrives on throwing herself under fire, criticizing both her laugh lines and the ludicrous frivolity of being an actor in a suffering universe. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 15 June 2022",
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"Instead, the committee highlighted the ludicrous culture inside the Oval Office and underscored the absurdity of the Big Lie. \u2014 Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
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"Under most circumstances, researchers would need to subject an object to ludicrous accelerations\u2014upward of 25 quintillion times the force of Earth\u2019s gravity\u2014in order to produce a measurable emission. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 20 May 2022",
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"The film has become infamous for its ludicrous language, sumptuous furnishings, and over the top acting with a capital A. \u2014 Callahan Tormey, Town & Country , 8 May 2022",
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"In Putin World, investments are seized on ludicrous charges or looted by cabals of judges, police and tax authorities. \u2014 Alexandra Wrage, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
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"Prices have skyrocketed, and many dealers are adding ludicrous markups that were previously only found on low-production, high-performance vehicles. \u2014 Roberto Baldwin, Ars Technica , 28 Apr. 2022",
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"An absurd campaign had resulted in a win, and then an even more ludicrous administration. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1712, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin ludicrus , from ludus play, sport; perhaps akin to Greek loidoros abusive":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8l\u00fc-d\u0259-kr\u0259s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for ludicrous laughable , ludicrous , ridiculous , comic , comical mean provoking laughter or mirth. laughable applies to anything occasioning laughter. laughable attempts at skating ludicrous suggests absurdity that excites both laughter and scorn. a thriller with a ludicrous plot ridiculous suggests extreme absurdity, foolishness, or contemptibility. a ridiculous display of anger comic applies especially to what arouses thoughtful amusement. a comic character comical applies to what arouses spontaneous hilarity. a comical hat",
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"synonyms":[
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"antic",
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"chucklesome",
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"comedic",
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"comic",
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"comical",
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"droll",
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"farcical",
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"funny",
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"hilarious",
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"humoristic",
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"humorous",
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"hysterical",
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"hysteric",
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"killing",
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"laughable",
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"ridiculous",
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"riotous",
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"risible",
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"screaming",
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"sidesplitting",
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"uproarious"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-002741",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"luderick":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a silvery gray Australian percoid food fish ( Girella tricuspidata ) of shallow coastal seas and estuaries and tidal rivers":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8l\u00fcd(\u0259)rik"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"native name in Gippsland, Australia":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-215035"
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},
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"Ludendorff":{
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"type":[
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"biographical name"
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],
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"definitions":{
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"Erich Friedrich Wilhelm 1865\u20131937 German general":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8l\u00fc-d\u1d4an-\u02ccd\u022frf"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001031"
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}
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} |