Ridiculously
//ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li// adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 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 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 so as to arouse or deserve laughter wordnet
Example
More examples"You two are ridiculously silly."
Etymology
From ridiculous + -ly.
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