ridiculously
UK/ɹɪˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li//ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/
ridiculously adverb: in a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.
Adverb
ridiculously (comparative more ridiculously, superlative most ridiculously)
- In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.
- 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- `I was with the ballet back home, but the money was ridiculously low.'1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 78
- extremely; very
- 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.1956 January, M. D. Greville, “Scottish Railways in 1856”, in Railway Magazine, page 53
ridiculously meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
ridiculously in Hindi
- हास्यास्पद रूप से
ridiculously in Tamil
- கேலிக்குரிய வகையில்
ridiculously in Marathi
- हास्यास्पदपणे, उपहासात्मकपणे
ridiculously in Bengali
- হাস্যকরভাবে
More languagesFewer languages
- ridiculously in Telugu
- అపహాస్యంగా
- ridiculously in Malayalam
- പരിഹാസ്യമായി
- ridiculously in Kannada
- ಹಾಸ್ಯಾಸ್ಪದವಾಗಿ
Examples of ridiculously in a sentence
- So ridiculously did I do in the exam that mom grounded me for a month.
- She got ridiculously drunk last night and chucked up in the back of the minicab on the way home.
- As the ridiculously over-used cliché notes, Rome was not built in a day.
Forms of ridiculously
| comparative | more ridiculously |
|---|---|
| superlative | most ridiculously |
Origin of ridiculously
From ridiculous + -ly.
Questions about ridiculously
- What does ridiculously mean?
- Ridiculously means in a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.
- What is ridiculously in Hindi?
- Ridiculously in Hindi is हास्यास्पद रूप से. See Ridiculously meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ridiculously?
- Ridiculously is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce ridiculously?
- Ridiculously is pronounced /ɹɪˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li/ (UK).
Words near ridiculously in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ridiculously (page history and authors); ridiculously (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ridiculously (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ridiculously (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ridiculously (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ridiculously (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ridiculously (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ridiculously (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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