10 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
adjective inspiring scornful pity; - Dashiell Hammett
adjective incongruous;inviting ridicule
adjective broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
originBorrowed from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, ridiculous”); Equivalent to ridicule + -ous.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0