ridiculously

adverb

ri·dic·u·lous·ly rə-ˈdi-kyə-ləs-lē

: in a ridiculous manner

We walked like that, ridiculously, for several blocks.—

Charis W. Co

: to an extreme and ridiculous extent

a ridiculously easy question

a ridiculously small apartment

a ridiculously expensive car

I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his process of deduction. "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 … "—

Arthur Conan Doyle

Examples of ridiculously in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Lake Men’s Poplin Pajama Set Lake Pima Long-Long Weekend Set Rifle Paper Co. Take this as your sign to go ham on Rifle Paper Co.'s ridiculously cute holiday decor and paper goods. —

Malia Griggs, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2023 The program was ridiculously deep a season ago, routinely shuffling through nine players. —

Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023 Over the last few years, the March/April/May stretch has been ridiculously crowded even by the standards of Peak TV. —

Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023 Josh Hader, 29, LHP, 2.4, 11.7: Teams that still value an old-fashioned ninth-inning specialist who strikes out a ton of batters will court Hader, whose 165 career saves and ridiculously high 15 strikeouts per nine innings. —

Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023 So when Lee exposed some of Atlanta’s most popular digs for customer service flubs, ridiculously long wait times, arbitrary rules around ordering and misleading information about service hours — the internet had thoughts. —

Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023 And thanks to a blend of juniper, blood orange, and violet, your hair will smell ridiculously fresh, too. —

Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 26 Oct. 2023 Enlarge / Arresting visual moments like these are ridiculously common in Spider-Man 2. —

Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023 The weather is mild, the valley’s residents are friendly, and the small towns along the waterfront are ridiculously charming. —

Sarah Kuta, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023 See More

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