ridiculously

ridiculous +‎ -ly

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ridiculously (comparative more ridiculously, superlative most ridiculously)

1. In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The 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, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

   • 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 78:

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

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

     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.

2. (degree) extremely; very