preposterously
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/pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli/
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/pɹɪˈpɒstɹəsli/ · /pɹɪˈpɒstəɹəsli/ · /pɹə-/ · /pɹəˈpɑstɹəsli/ · /pɹəˈpɑstəɹəsli/
Definition of preposterously
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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In a preposterous manner.
“Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.”
“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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Etymology
From preposterous + -ly.
Words you can make from preposterously
200+ playable · top: PROPERTYLESS (19 pts)
Best play propertyless 19 points12-letter words
2 words11-letter words
2 words10-letter words
10 words9-letter words
43 words- POLYPORES 16 pts
- POLYPUSES 16 pts
- PURPOSELY 16 pts
- OPEROSELY 14 pts
- POLYESTER 14 pts
- PRELUSORY 14 pts
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- PROSELYTE 14 pts
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- UROSTYLES 12 pts
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- RESOLUTER 9 pts
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8-letter words
99 words- POLYPORE 15 pts
- POLYPOUS 15 pts
- PRETYPES 15 pts
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- PROPERTY 15 pts
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- SOLERETS 8 pts
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7-letter words
43 words- EUPEPSY 14 pts
- EYESPOT 12 pts
- LEPROSY 12 pts
- OSPREYS 12 pts
- OUTYELP 12 pts
- LOPPERS 11 pts
- LOPPETS 11 pts
- OPPOSER 11 pts
- OPPOSES 11 pts
- OPPRESS 11 pts
- PEEPULS 11 pts
- PEOPLER 11 pts
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- ELUSORY 10 pts
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- OUTSEES 7 pts
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