Ridiculously

//ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li// adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.

    "From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied."

  2. 2
    extremely; very

    "Thus, after eighteen months of fantastic and ruinous warfare, the companies had come to their senses and agreed to do what they might have done at the start; the only gainers were the passengers who had been carried at ridiculously uneconomic fares."

Adverb
  1. 1
    so as to arouse or deserve laughter wordnet

Example

More examples

"You two are ridiculously silly."

Etymology

From ridiculous + -ly.

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