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Definition: Ridiculously |
RidiculouslyAdverb1. So as to arouse or deserve laughter; "her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ridiculously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: RidiculouslySynonyms: laughably (adv), ludicrously (adv), preposterously (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Similarity | Exact; (true); lifelike, faithful; true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of; for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare; instar omnium, cast in the same mold, ridiculously like. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ridiculously |
| English words defined with "ridiculously": Snippety. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ridiculously": ARTHUR ♦ KING ARTHUR ♦ quadruple bucky ♦ Sortes Virgilianae. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, I guess it started during my first year of the second grade, when I was eating lunch and caught my reflection in a spoon, and I thought to myself, 'Hey, Derek, you're ridiculously good looking (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller) ' You see how ridiculously you have to think in order to make this work (Robert Rauschenberg: Man at Work; writing credit: Salvatore Cammarano) | |
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| "Ridiculously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ridiculously" is used about 196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 196 | 21,868 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ridiculously": ridiculously like. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
overcrowded pick ridiculously truck up | 4 |
fact fascinating ridiculously | 3 |
ridiculously | 3 |
made nclex ridiculously rn simple | 3 |
made ridiculously simple usmle | 3 |
funny picture ridiculously | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ridiculously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 可笑地 (Comically, laughably, ludicrously). (various references) | |
Finnish | pilkkahinta (ridiculously low price). (various references) | |
German | lächerliche (preposterously), lächerlich (absurd, comical, farcical, foolish, funny, idiotically, laughable, laughably, ludicrous, ludicrously, petty, piddling, preposterous, ridiculous, risible, trivial). (various references) | |
Greek | γελοία. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 飛び出る (to be exorbitant, to be ridiculously high). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とびでる (to be exorbitant, to be ridiculously high, to spring or rush out). (various references) | |
Korean | 어리석게 (stupidly). (various references) | |
Manx | dy faghidoil, dy faghidagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idiculouslyray.(various references) | |
Romanian | ridicol (clownish, derisive, farcical, foolish, grotesque, humorous, laughable, laughably, ludicrous, preposterous, ridicule, ridiculous, risible), caraghios (antic, blockhead, booby, buffoon, comic, dolt, eccentric, fool, foolish, funny, ridiculous, screaming, singular, strange, zany). (various references) | |
Russian | до смешного (absurdly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smešno, podrugljivo (ironically). (various references) | |
Swedish | löjligt. (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างน่าขำ. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смішно (amusingly, funnily), обурливо (outrageously). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ridiculously" (pronounced rudi"kyuluslē) |
| 9 | -i" k y u l u s l ē | meticulously. |
| 8 | -k y u l u s l ē | miraculously. |
| 7 | -y u l u s l ē | scrupulously, tremulously. |
| 6 | -u l u s l ē | frivolously, marvelously, mercilessly, perilously. |
| 5 | -l u s l ē | aimlessly, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, ceaselessly, jealously, effortlessly, endlessly, fabulously, flawlessly, fruitlessly, harmlessly, helplessly, hopelessly, listlessly, mindlessly, needlessly, painlessly, recklessly, relentlessly, restlessly, ruthlessly, seamlessly, shamelessly, tirelessly, zealously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, capriciously, cautiously, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, judiciously, laboriously, egregiously, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmoniously, hellaciously, hideously, hilariously, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, ludicrously, maliciously, mysteriously, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, religiously, righteously, rigorously, seriously, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tremendously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-i-l-l-o-r-s-u-u-y" | |
-1 letter: ludicrously. | |
-2 letters: ridiculous. | |
-3 letters: curiously, ludicrous. | |
-4 letters: cloudily, illusory, sciuroid, siluroid. | |
-5 letters: cirsoid, crusily, curious, curlily, dysuric, idyllic, loculus, lousily, lucidly, luridly, sciurid, silurid, solidly, surlily. | |
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