ridiculously

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
22
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li/ (UK)
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/ɹɪˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li/ (UK) · /ɹiːˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li/ (UK) · /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/ (US)

Definition of ridiculously

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  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.'”
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adv

  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. 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.”

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Etymology

From ridiculous + -ly.

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