RIDICULOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ridiculously mean? 

• RIDICULOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb RIDICULOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. so as to arouse or deserve laughter

  Familiarity information: RIDICULOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIDICULOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

So as to arouse or deserve laughter

Synonyms:

laughably; ludicrously; preposterously; ridiculously

Context example:

her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well

Pertainym:

ridiculous (broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce)

 Context examples 

I did not feel dizzy—I suppose I was too excited—and the time seemed ridiculously short till I found myself standing on the window-sill and trying to raise up the sash.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"There is a speed limit in the study that shows that an ice shelf can't collapse ridiculously fast," said co-author Alison Banwell, a glaciology researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)

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.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“When I hear you give your reasons,” I remarked, the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you explain your process.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)