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Cjmarmar Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Can "ridiculosly" in some contexts come to mean something like "incredibly"?
  

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sorry, I meant "ridiculously".

  • sorry, I meant "ridiculously".
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sorry, I meant "ridiculously".
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Can you give it in a context?
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"Absolutely, ridiculously good from both" ( coming from a HAVE YOUR SAY in the aftermath of yesterday´s Nadal-Djokovic semifinal in Madrid). It is not the first time that this same usage of the adverb strucks me as not very usual ( at least to my ear). By the way, should we call it a coincidence that just before replying in this thread I was going through Quentin´s Bell "Virginia Woolf"? Thank y
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sorry again, "strikes me" I should have said.
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I've heard this word used to mean, roughly, "of a quality so much as to be ridiculous/ unbelievable." So yes, "incredibly" would be a good substitute.

Oh my ***, you have to try the dark chocolate gelato with the raspberry topping. It's ridiculously good.

I was so worried about making the necktie I was afraid to cut the silk, but it turned out to be ridiculously easy.
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Hi,

The word 'ridiculous' seems also to have taken on a slang meaning of 'good' among younger people.

Here is an entry from a chat site.

OMG, this picture is simply amazing. The lighting is incredibly ridiculous (meaning good) and I just love the realism in your sims.

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