ludicrouslyadv.
/ˈluːdᵻkrəsli/, /ˈljuːdᵻkrəsli/, U.S. /ˈludəkrəsli/ In a ludicrous manner; †sportively, jestingly, humorously (obsolete); ridiculously, absurdly.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adverb] > in a jesting manner
merrilyc1395
japinglya1420
pleasantly1552
jestingly1569
facetiously1598
facetely1620
joculatorily1623
sportively1631
lepidly1653
jocularly1655
jocundarily1660
ludicrouslya1678
drollingly1684
jokingly1700
jocosely1725
humorously1752
drolly1791
jest-wise1844
side-splittingly1859
japishly1888
jokily1976
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adverb]
ridiculously1563
grotesquely1740
laughably1763
ridiculous1827
ludicrously1844
pathetically1937
a1678 A. Marvell in Life in Wks. (1776) III. 462 You do not mean to treat me ludicrously by these munificent offers.
1742 H. Walpole Let. 30 June in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 172 It was of a piece with her saying, ‘that Swift would have written better, if he had never written ludicrously’.
1758 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (1765) I. Introd. i. 14 They will give me leave, however, to suggest, and that not ludicrously, that it might frequently be of use [etc.].
1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 286 Circumstances were sometimes added, which..produced what Perrault ludicrously called comparisons with a long tail.
1844 R. W. Emerson New Eng. Reformers in Wks. (1906) I. 262 As soon as he leaves the University, as it is ludicrously styled, he shuts those books for the last time.
1899 E. Griffith-Jones Ascent through Christ i. 3 This calculation was ludicrously inadequate.
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