bed-wettingly ridiculous
- adjective
- /ˈbɛdˌwɛtɪŋli rɪˈdɪkjələs/
- Informal
:
ridículamente gracioso
- I found the movie so bed-wettingly ridiculous that I couldn't stop laughing.
Examples
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The comedian's new show was bed-wettingly ridiculous from start to finish.
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Their costumes at the party were bed-wettingly ridiculous and left everyone in stitches.
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That movie was bed-wettingly ridiculous!
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I found the comedian's jokes bed-wettingly ridiculous.
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The comedian's new show was bed-wettingly ridiculous from start to finish.
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I found the movie so bed-wettingly ridiculous that I couldn't stop laughing.
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Their costumes at the party were bed-wettingly ridiculous and left everyone in stitches.
Synonyms
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1.6
Very silly or unreasonable in a way that makes people laugh
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4.4
So silly or unreasonable that it makes no sense
264
1.5
Causing people to laugh loudly
129
3.5
Silly in a funny, slightly foolish way
100
6.0
Very silly and unreasonable so it makes people laugh
98
5.9
Odd in a funny or silly way
60
4.1
So silly or not reasonable that people do not take it seriously
39
3.1
Making people laugh because it is silly or unusual
7
8.5
A situation that is very silly and unlikely, like a comic play
3
8.0
To make people laugh
Very silly in a way that makes people laugh
So funny that you laugh a lot and cannot stop
Very silly and not likely to be true
So silly that people laugh at it
Antonyms
How Ridiculous
Surface Forms
Morphology
bed-wettingly + ridiculous
The constituent parts (bed + wetting + -ly + ridiculous) transparently evoke the image 'so absurd or funny that one would wet the bed', so a learner who knows these words can infer an intensifying hyperbole. However, the expression relies on a cultural/colloquial hyperbolic use (wetting oneself from laughter) and functions as a playful intensifier rather than a literal description, so the precise idiomatic force and appropriateness are not fully predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Bed-wettingly ridiculous comes from the image of someone laughing so hard they wet the bed, with bed-wettingly creating the strong picture and ridiculous meaning very absurd. So, it means 'extremely funny' or so absurd that it makes people laugh a lot.