preposterously

1. 1.

   so as to arouse or deserve laughter

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

   Synonymslaughablyridiculouslyludicrously

Questions about preposterously

What does preposterously mean?

preposterously means "so as to arouse or deserve laughter".

How many syllables are in preposterously?

preposterously has 5 syllables and divides as pre-po-ste-rou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for preposterously?

Close synonyms include laughably, ridiculously, ludicrously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.