ridiculously

adv

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

1. In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing or extremely implausible.

   “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.”

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

2. 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.”