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Pronunciation

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• /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/ (US)
• /ɹɪˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li/ (Canada, UK)
• /ɹiːˈdɪk.jʊ.ləs.li/ (Canada, UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English ridiculous Middle English -ly English -ly English ridiculously From ridiculous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.
   • `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:
   • 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:
   • 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. 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:
2. (qualifier:degree) 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:

Forms

Translations (31)

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