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Definition of Ridiculously
1. Adverb. So as to arouse or deserve laughter. "Her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well"
Definition of Ridiculously
1. Adverb. In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ridiculously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ridiculously
Literary usage of Ridiculously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"Beside, their catalogues must needs be ridiculously incredible, when the Egyptians
make their first kings' reigns above one thousand two hundred years ..."
2. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1909)
"Plans have been developing for eight Photo by the author est building on a
ridiculously small lot, with all other plans in proportion. ..."
3. The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Charles Strachey, Annette Calthrop (1901)
"It sounds ridiculously to bid you study with your dancing- master ; and yet I do.
The bodily carriage and graces are of infinite consequence to everybody, ..."
4. Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama by Walter Scott (1887)
"Like fiends in glee, ridiculously grim." Nathaniel, the hero of the story,
acquaints us with the circumstances of his life in a letter addressed to Lothair, ..."
5. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With by Delany (Mary), Augusta Waddington Hall Llanover (1862)
"There he was exceedingly well entertain'd by himself and other military gent«;
describes ridiculously les Boues de St. Amand, where delicate ladies bathe in ..."
6. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"I must confess, that as to these, I find no other fault than that they were badly
applied and ridiculously pronounced ; and this further fault, ..."
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