Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

preposterously

/pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English

Syllables: pre-pos-ter-ous-ly
IPA: /pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli/

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a preposterous manner.

Example Sentences

"Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle."
"The opening sections of Martin’s biography are clogged with genealogical chronicles of the Garcías (the father’s family) and the Márquezes (the mother’s), snaking into the 19th century — a preposterously tangled story of cousins and noncousins united in wedlock, nonwedlock, near-incest, vendetta-mania and frontier trailblazing in the Colombian wilds[…]"

Etymology

Etymology tree English preposterous Middle English -ly English -ly English preposterously From preposterous + -ly.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli/
British English: /pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli/

Inflected Forms

more preposterously (comparative) most preposterously (superlative)

Synonyms

laughably ridiculously ludicrously

Questions

How do you pronounce preposterously?: The recorded pronunciation is /pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli/.
What does preposterously mean?: In a preposterous manner.
Where does preposterously come from?: Etymology tree English preposterous Middle English -ly English -ly English preposterously From preposterous + -ly.

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