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stupidly

adv

Etymology

From stupid + -ly.

  1. derived from *(s)tew-✻
  2. derived from *(s)tup-✻
  3. derived from stupidus
  4. derived from stupide
  5. formed as stupidly — “stupid + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a stupid manner.

    • She gazed stupidly after him.
    • She was so modest, so expressive, she had looked so soft in her thin white gown that he felt he had acted stupidly.
    • "Don't we behave just as stupidly in our pursuit of happiness - don't we?" Simpson nodded dejectedly.

  2. To an extreme or excessive degree

    To an extreme or excessive degree; absurdly.

    • He is so—so proud of his money, and thinks every one ought to be as stupidly rich as he is himself.
    • As well as being stupidly hungry I had a raging thirst.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stupidly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA