bed-wettingly ridiculous
- adjective
- /ˈbɛdˌwɛtɪŋli rɪˈdɪkjələs/
- Informal
- 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
256
1.5
Causing people to laugh loudly
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3.5
Silly in a funny, slightly foolish way
100
5.9
Odd in a funny or silly way
87
6.0
Very silly and unreasonable so it makes people laugh
54
4.1
So silly or not reasonable that people do not take it seriously
37
3.1
Making people laugh because it is silly or unusual
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8.5
A situation that is very silly and unlikely, like a comic play
2
8.0
To make people laugh
2
9.9
Very silly and not likely to be true
1
9.3
So silly that people laugh at it
Very silly in a way that makes people laugh
So funny that you laugh a lot and cannot stop
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.