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ridiculously

adverbattested in dialogue

  • United States//ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li//
  • Canada//ɹɪˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li//
  • Canada//ɹiːˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li//

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

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.

    `I was with the ballet back home, but the money was ridiculously low.'

  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.

Etymology

Etymology tree English ridiculous Middle English -ly English -ly English ridiculously From ridiculous + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more ridiculously
superlative
most ridiculously
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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