Meanings
comparative more preposterously · superlative most preposterously
- In a preposterous manner.
Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.
1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform1 more example
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[…]
2009 June 7, Paul Berman, “Telling the Tale”, in The New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbso as to arouse or deserve laughter
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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