I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with "ludicrous".

That's how I feel right now.

Having eaten too much for lunch, I feel quite large.

(BTW, how much of "ludicrous" are we rhyming with?)

"how much OF ʻludicrousʻ. . .
(Title>3 Jim53:)

Iʻm inclined to ask myself that question about EVERY
Crambo! Word. But I havenʻt pressed the point
within Crambo! Iʻm getting
the idea that, usually, only the last syllable is expected to rhyme.

>2 Jim53: Jim may be humongous, but that is not Crambo's word.
>3 Jim53: Just rhyme with "us".

Not: humongous.

A trisyllable meaning "inclined to drink", or "drinking excessively" ?
As a Roman name, it was the name of Julius Caesarʻs co-consul. ca. 59 B.C.

Are there two "...Rhymes with ʻludicrousʻ " threads going on at once? I had to borrow this from the other one where I entered it yesterday.

#2 was not humongous. It attempted to rhyme with all of ludicrous.

>2 Jim53:, 7: Magnitudinous I am not.
6> Not Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, nor any other Roman consuls.
Sorry about the dual topic. I must have broken off my activity and lost the thread.

Not: bibulous, humongous.magnitudinous

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"Magnitudinous" is lovely but that isn't my word either. I felt I had an outsized height times width times depth.

>10 Jim53: Nor am I voluminous. (At least not excessively so)

Not: bibulous, humongous, magnitudinous, voluminous

Full of "__ __ __ __ __ A",
the Latin plural of
"__ __ __ __ __", meaning "light"?

>12 rolandperkins: Roland, was that 1 or 2 guesses? The answer may not help, as I never studied Latin. Is/are the word(s) proper names?

". . .was that (12) one or two guesses?" . . ."proper name?" (13)

It was ONE guess, NOT a proper name but an 8-letter
adjective; the hint was of
2 cases of one Latin word.
I left the blanks where the
letters would be the same as in the English, which has the root "L U M__ __" + a common Latinate suffix meaning "full of".

>12 rolandperkins:, 14 Yes, I am luminous, but that is not Crambo's word.

Not: bibulous, humongous, luminous, magnitudinous, voluminous

Hello? Is anybody there?

"__ __ __ __ __ __",
like Catullusʻs "Odi ET amo"
poem, deals with "hate", but not so evenhandedly as C. dealt with love/hate. It in fact, adjectivizes hate.

>17 rolandperkins:: Roland, you had me stumped for a few days by throwing in such a short word. However, I am not odious.

P.S. I am going out of town for a few days, so y'all have a few days of fun and frustration.

Not: bibulous, humongous, luminous, magnitudinous, odious, voluminous

This is turning out to be "a Roaming Candle" as Walt Kelley says somewhere: Iʻm getting hung up on latinate words. But how do we know it even ends in "-ous"?

Lou, I think we might need a clue or something to help us focus. There are zillions of -us and -ous words out there. Maybe a number of syllables, part of speech (if it's not an adjective, that would certainly narrow it down). Hope your trip was enjoyable!

Hokay, here are a couple clues: 1. The word is an adjective; my dictionary lists no other parts of speech in the definition. 2. Yes, it ends in "ous".

Okay, since everybody seems to be stumped, here are two more clues.
1. It starts with the letter "l". (That as in "ell", not the number one.
2.It has three syllables.

Is it something meaning "overly eager to believe", and heard more often with
an "in-" prefix but that would give it one syllable too many?

23> Roland, you have stumped me. I have done a word-for-word search in my Funk & Wagnalls for a word that matches the hints I've given and your definition, and found no matches. But I'm pretty sure that your guess is not Crambo's word.

Another hint: I will accept either of two possible words as correct. The two words are near homographs. (One contains one more letter than the other; that's the only difference.) The two words are also near synonyms.

Is that three hints? Or four?

Re-reading 22 ("starts with the letter l as
in ʻellʻ "), I realize now that it couldnʻt be my
guess of 23, which was " "credulous".

Is it a word that describes the classic "dirty old man"?

Congratulations Jim! Lubricious it is. The near homograph/synonym I mentioned is lubricous.

Over to you.

P.S. I wonder why nobody guessed "Louminus"?
P.P.S. To clarify: Did Jim mean "Louminus"?

>27 louminus: re: PPS: I'll never tell! (even though what you really meant in message #1 was.... ?)

Actually, I was thinking of "lecherous," but since this game has been going for a while, I'll go ahead and start another.

It's right over here.

>28 Jim53: Actually, I wodered if you were suggesting that I was a dirty old man. (Some people think that would be justified.)