Deranged vs Ludicrous - What's the difference?
deranged | ludicrous |
disturbed or upset, especially mentally
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insane
(derange)
Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny.
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Amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.
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As adjectives the difference between deranged and ludicrous
is that deranged is disturbed or upset, especially mentally while ludicrous is idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny.As a verb deranged
is past tense of derange.deranged
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
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* * *ludicrous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}