ludicrously
/ˈl(j)uːdɪkrəsli
/adverb
1In a way that is so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing: a performance artist poses ludicrously in a fur bikini with a surfboard in tow [as sentence adverb]: ludicrously, we were kept waiting a further 20 minutes...
- She's just awful in her role as the psychiatrist who ludicrously gets stuck in the precinct.
- The program ludicrously lists the cast alphabetically, thereby throwing the first 20 minutes out the window until you have discovered who everyone is.
- The heroine takes off to India, where she ludicrously exchanges her laptop for Tibetan incenses.
1.1 [as submodifier] To a very surprising or unreasonable extent: a ludicrously expensive restaurant...
- The keyboardist loomed like some kind of elder wizard, clad in ludicrously bright long coats.
- Those two sides have plenty of time to interact due to the ludicrously lax security arrangements.
- This ludicrously overrated copycat director gives a nonperformance to temper the ardor of his most slavish fans.