ridiculously
/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.
adv
extremely; very
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "`I was with the ballet back home, but the money was ridiculously low.'"
- "It's a shame; not only are nuts quite ridiculously nutritious but, as anyone who's ever shelled out (sorry) for a tiny glass of pistachios in a pub will know, they're a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. But although I happen to have a soft spot for nut roast – an option often preferable to the meat that emerged from the school kitchen – it seems I'm in a cranky minority. A request for recipe recommendations was met with a polite silence on Twitter: vegetarianism, apparently, has moved on a bit. You don't see Yotam Ottolenghi faffing about with nut roasts, do you? But I'm determined to revive the fortunes of this much-maligned classic. After all, Christmas isn't Christmas without a luxury nut selection."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English ridiculous Middle English -ly English -ly English ridiculously From ridiculous + -ly.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/
- British English: /ɹɪˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li/
Inflected Forms
more ridiculously (comparative)
most ridiculously (superlative)