preposterously
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From preposterous + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli/, /pɹɪˈpɒstəɹəsli/, /pɹə-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli/, /pɹəˈpɑstəɹəsli/
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Adverb
[edit]preposterously (comparative more preposterously, superlative most preposterously)
- 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 […]