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    ridiculously
    [ adv ]
    so as to arouse or deserve laughter
    <adv.all>
    her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well


    Ridiculous \Ri*dic"u*lous\, a. [L. ridiculosus, ridiculus, fr.
    ridere to laigh. Cf. {Risible}.]
    1. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy
    of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or
    behavior.

    Agricola, discerning that those little targets and
    unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become
    ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded
    three Batavian cohorts . . . to draw up and come to
    handy strokes. --Milton.

    2. Involving or expressing ridicule. [R.]

    [It] provokes me to ridiculous smiling. --Shak.

    Syn: Ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd;
    preposterous. See {Ludicrous}.
    --- {Ri*dic"u*lous*ly}, adv. --
    {Ri*dic"u*lous*ness}, n.

    1. Despite its traffic congestion, smog, "ridiculously high housing prices" and regulatory barriers, Los Angeles rates as the best market for real estate investments, a study said Monday.
    2. Every year, ski resorts are desperate to tell the world they have opened on the earliest possible date - sometimes ridiculously early. In its traditional battle to be first, Keystone pulled off a master-stroke to scupper Loveland, its local rival.
    3. These overprogrammed, ridiculously scheduled, burnout children want real time with their parents, siblings, peers and themselves.
    4. He contended that it draws "a ridiculously artificial line" between those that catch the fish and those who transport or process it or supply the nets.
    5. Jack Matson's first class assignment will be to have his University of Michigan Business School students laugh as ridiculously as they can.
    6. He says stock prices are "ridiculously low" relative to corporate profits.
    7. "He stands up and he says `I'm the most qualified candidate' _ which is a ridiculously presumptuous statement _ and if I wasn't black I'd win and if I wasn't connected to Jesse Jackson I'd win," said Baker.
    8. Two scientists claim to have carried controlled nuclear fusion in a test tube, using a "ridiculously simple" technique that could transform the world's energy resources, it was reported today.
    9. Thomas J. Herzfeld, whose Miami-based firm specializes in closed-end funds, said both funds were "ridiculously overvalued."
    10. In 1984, the dollar was allowed to become sharply overvalued in terms of purchasing power parity, and in 1987 it was allowed to plunge to ridiculously low levels.
    11. There is big-league pork, and then there is what might be called bacon bits: the host of relatively small Federal outlays on projects that seem not only wasteful but ridiculously so.
    12. "It's ridiculously low," she maintains.
    13. In the midst of the crash, said Shorts, "there was an opportunity for us to buy at ridiculously low prices." Looking back, Hardiman says, "we took a lot of criticism early because the problem was access to our markets.
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