ridiculously

English

Etymology

Fromridiculous+‎-ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

ridiculously(comparativemoreridiculously,superlativemostridiculously)

1. In aridiculousmanner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.
   • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell,chapter XXII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp,Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:

     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, wereridiculously,vaingloriously self-satisfied.

   • 1965,James Holledge,What Makes a Call Girl?,London: Horwitz Publications, page78:

     `I was with the ballet back home, but the money wasridiculouslylow.'

   • 2011December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”,inGuardian:

     It's a shame; not only are nuts quiteridiculouslynutritious 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.

2. (degree)extremely;very

Translations

in a ridiculous manner

• Catalan:ridículament(ca)
• Czech:směšně(cs),absurdně
• Dutch:belachelijk(nl),bespottelijk(nl)
• Esperanto:ridinde
• Estonian:naeruväärselt
• Finnish:naurettavasti(fi)
• French:ridiculement(fr),bouffonnement(fr),caricaturalement(fr)
• Georgian:სასაცილოდ(sasacilod)
• German:lächerlich(de)
• Greek:^{(pleaseverify)}γελοία(el)(geloía)
• Hungarian:nevetségesen(hu)
• Ido:ridikule(io)
• Italian:ridicolmente,irrisoriamente(it)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish:qeşmerane(ku)

• Latin:perrīdiculē
• Latvian:smieklīgi
• Norman:riditchulement
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:latterlig(no)

• Polish:niedorzecznie(pl)
• Portuguese:ridiculamente
• Romanian:înmodridicol
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:смешно́,смије́шно

  Roman:sméšno,smijéšno(sh)

• Spanish:ridículamente(es)
• Swedish:löjligt(sv)