ridiculously
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3.7
- adverb
- /rɪˈdɪkjələsli/
:
ridículamente
- The instructions for the game were ridiculously simple, making it easy for everyone to join in.
- ridiculously small
- ridiculously low
- so ridiculously
It's just been so ridiculously rushed over.
- It's just been so ridiculously rushed over.
- And also, here's this other thing that's ridiculously satisfying about it.
- And it's so ridiculously tiny it's almost laughable.
- OK, folks, it seems like it's ridiculously easy.
- I was brought up by a, you know, ridiculously affectionate family.
- OK, this is either like ridiculously chic or just ridiculous.
- So let's zoom in and get to applying this ridiculously expensive powder.
- Meanwhile, it's ridiculously practical for you right now.
- Which is why your nearest clone might be ridiculously far away.
- That's how ridiculously naive we were about filming back then.
- I mean, that it's so ridiculously true.
- He, your mind is just so ridiculously fast.
Examples
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I mean, I mean, he's a ridiculously great musician.
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The comedian told a ridiculously funny joke that had the entire audience laughing.
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OK, folks, it seems like it's ridiculously easy.
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Meanwhile, it's ridiculously practical for you right now.
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Look, the way the technology works is actually ridiculously simple.
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It's amazing how well cars move in these ridiculously thin, tiny streets.
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She'd married my father at a ridiculously young age, already pregnant with me.
Academic text (2011) -
And it's so ridiculously tiny it's almost laughable.
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Forgive and keep moving forward, because we're all so ridiculously imperfect.
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But she had made their ridiculously expensive Fifth Avenue penthouse flat her own.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
172
2.8
In a way that is very surprising and hard to believe
137
3.9
To a much higher level than usual
107
3.7
In a way that is very surprising or seems impossible
57
2.7
To a very great degree
50
3.9
To a very great degree
23
5.0
In a way that does not make sense or is much too extreme
21
4.0
In a way that makes people very surprised
17
5.2
To a very great degree
17
5.8
In a way that is very shocking, too much, or rude
14
7.7
In a very unusual and surprising way
12
4.7
In a wild and foolish way
12
4.9
So strong or bad that you cannot stand it
12
2.5
In a very funny way that makes people laugh
11
3.9
In a funny way that makes people laugh
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
7
5.5
So silly or weak that people laugh at it
6
6.5
In a way that shocks people because it is too large or unfair
5
7.0
So silly or extreme that it makes people laugh
3
8.1
Very silly or unreasonable in a way that seems laughable
2
7.7
In a way that is very hard to imagine
1
7.3
Much more expensive than it should be
1
8.2
Seems very strange and different from what people expect
1
7.9
Very funny or easy to notice
1
7.9
In a very silly way
1
8.1
In a way that makes people laugh a lot
In a way that makes people laugh because it is silly
In a way that is very funny and makes people laugh
In a silly, funny way that makes people laugh
Behave in a silly, foolish way that seems a bit crazy
Antonyms
How Absurd
Surface Forms
Morphology
ridiculously = ridiculous (transparent) = ridicul + ous + ly
The adverb 'ridiculously' is transparently formed from the adjective 'ridiculous' by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly'.
Etymology
Ridiculously comes from the Latin root ridere, which means 'to laugh', and from ridiculous, which originally meant 'worth laughing at'. So the ending -ly turns it into a word that tells how something happens, meaning it is 'so unreasonable or absurd that it is almost laughable'.