ridiculously

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ridiculously

  • /ɹɪˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li/ Canada, UK
  • /ɹiːˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li/ Canada, UK
  • /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/ US

adverb more ridiculously · most ridiculously

  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.

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Closest in meaning: laughably, ludicrously, preposterously, laughable, ridicule, absurdly, absurd, scandalously, extremely, pathetically, shamefully, disgracefully, extraordinarily, unreasonably, unrealistically, incredible

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adv in a ridiculous manner

Españolridículamente
Portuguêsridiculamente
Françaisridiculement, bouffonnement, caricaturalement
Deutschlächerlich
Italianoridicolmente, irrisoriamente
Românăîn mod ridicol

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"ridiculously." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ridiculously. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{ridiculously_2026,
  title = {ridiculously},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ridiculously},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}