PREPOSTEROUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preposterously mean? 

• PREPOSTEROUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb PREPOSTEROUSLY has 1 sense:

1. so as to arouse or deserve laughter

  Familiarity information: PREPOSTEROUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREPOSTEROUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

So as to arouse or deserve laughter

Synonyms:

laughably; ludicrously; preposterously; ridiculously

Context example:

her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well

 Context examples 

I looked at the picture. A man, with a preposterously wicked face, his right hand pressed dramatically to his heart, was falling backward to the floor. Confronting him, with a face that was a composite of destroying angel and Adonis, was a man holding a smoking revolver.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)