ridiculously


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ri·dic·u·lous

 (rĭ-dĭk′yə-ləs)
adj.
Deserving or inspiring ridicule; absurd, preposterous, or silly. See Synonyms at foolish.

[From Latin rīdiculus, laughable, from rīdēre, to laugh.]

ri·dic′u·lous·ly adv.
ri·dic′u·lous·ness n.
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Adv.1.ridiculously - so as to arouse or deserve laughter; "her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well"
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Translations
بصورةٍ مُثيرَةٍ للسُّخْرِيَه
směšněabsurdně
latterligt
fáránlega
smešno
gülünç bir şekilde

ridiculously

[rɪˈdɪkjʊləslɪ] ADV
1. (= stupidly) → de forma ridícula
2. (fig) (= disproportionately etc) → absurdamente, ridículamente
it is ridiculously easyes absurdamente or ridículamente fácil
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ridiculously

[rɪˈdɪkjʊləsli] adv [low, short, small, cheap, expensive, young] → ridiculement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

ridiculously

advlächerlich; you’re talking ridiculouslydu redest dummes Zeug; ridiculously, he blamed himself for the accidenter gab sich lächerlicherweise selbst die Schuld an dem Unfall
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ridiculously

[rɪˈdɪkjʊləslɪ] adv (stupidly) → in modo ridicolo; (disproportionately) → incredibilmente
a ridiculously large/small amount → una quantità enorme/irrisoria
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ridiculous

(rəˈdikjuləs) adjective
very silly; deserving to be laughed at. That's a ridiculous suggestion; You look ridiculous in that hat!
riˈdiculously adverb
riˈdiculousness noun
ridicule (ˈridikjuːl) verb
to laugh at; to mock. They ridiculed him because he was wearing one brown shoe and one black shoe.
noun
laughter at someone or something; mockery. Despite the ridicule of his neighbours he continued to build a spaceship in his garden.
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References in classic literature ?
It looked as though some person had been walking all over the garden in a pair of clogs--only the foot-marks were too ridiculously little!
I first beheld him on the quay, a complete stranger to me, obviously not a Hollander, in a black bowler and a short drab overcoat, ridiculously out of tone with the winter aspect of the waste-lands, bordered by the brown fronts of houses with their roofs dripping with melting snow.
There were only three--the jib, foresail, and mainsail; and, patched, shortened, and distorted, they were a ridiculously ill-fitting suit for so trim a craft as the Ghost.
With our ridiculously small army and absolutely no sane scheme for home defence, we shall lose all that we have worth fighting for - our colonies - without being able to strike a blow.
He was conscious of being irritated by ridiculously small causes, which were half of his own creation.
"This seat, then, is an ancient mansion-house: if I was in one of those merry humours in which you have so often seen me, I could describe it to you ridiculously enough.
The idea of Robert starting off in such a ridiculously sudden and dramatic way!
Your attempt to put on any other disposition than your own will infallibly result in your becoming ridiculously gushing and offensively familiar.
Ojo knew she was right and felt greatly mortified to realize he had acted and spoken so ridiculously. But he raised his head and looked Ozma in the face, saying:
They were joined in a few minutes by a prim, dignified little lady, ridiculously like Mr.
But when he turned him around and started forward, Bob proceeded to feign fright at trees, cows, bushes, Wolf, his own shadow--in short, at every ridiculously conceivable object.
Yet, by a strange deception, owing to the duskiness of the chamber, and the antique dresses which they still wore, the tall mirror is said to have reflected the figures of the three old, gray, withered grandsires, ridiculously contending for the skinny ugliness of a shrivelled grandam.