preposterously

English

Etymology

From preposterous +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli/, /pɹɪˈpɒstəɹəsli/, /pɹə-/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli/, /pɹəˈpɑstəɹəsli/
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Adverb

preposterously (comparative more preposterously, superlative most preposterously)

  1. In a preposterous manner.
    • 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform:
      Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.
    • 2009 June 7, Paul Berman, “Telling the Tale”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      The opening sections of Martin’s biography are clogged with genealogical chronicles of the Garcías (the father’s family) and the Márquezes (the mother’s), snaking into the 19th century — a preposterously tangled story of cousins and noncousins united in wedlock, nonwedlock, near-incest, vendetta-mania and frontier trailblazing in the Colombian wilds […]
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