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stupidly

stupidly adverb: in a stupid manner.

Adverb

stupidly (comparative more stupidly, superlative most stupidly)

  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.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 26
  2. 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.1898, Fox Russell, “Outridden”, in Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches, volume 15
    • As well as being stupidly hungry I had a raging thirst.2011, Amy Kernahan, Orion is Upside Down
    Synonyms:
    absurdly

stupidly meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

stupidly in Tamil

முட்டாள்தனமாக, அறிவிலித்தனமாக, அசட்டுப்பிசட்டெனல்

stupidly in Telugu

in a stupid manner
మొద్దుగా moddugā

stupidly in Malayalam

മണ്ടത്തരമായി, വിഡ്ഢിത്തമായി

Examples of stupidly in a sentence

  • After all that work on a stupidly maintained spreadsheet, I am really thirsty.
  • Please don't mortify your mother by telling her what a stupidly dangerous thing you did last night.
  • I lost my night vision for ten minutes because Kevin stupidly shone his flashlight right in my eyes.

All 18 example sentences with stupidly

Synonyms of stupidly

All synonyms of stupidly

Forms of stupidly

comparativemore stupidly
superlativemost stupidly

Origin of stupidly

From stupid + -ly.

Questions about stupidly

What does stupidly mean?
Stupidly means in a stupid manner.
What is stupidly in Tamil?
Stupidly in Tamil is முட்டாள்தனமாக, அறிவிலித்தனமாக, அசட்டுப்பிசட்டெனல். See Stupidly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stupidly?
Stupidly is an adverb.

Words near stupidly in the dictionary

  1. stupidities
  2. stupidity
  3. stupidity tax
  4. stupidity taxes
  5. stupidité
  6. stupidly
  7. stupidness
  8. stupidnesses
  9. stupids
  10. stupidship
  11. stupidstition

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stupidly (page history and authors); stupidly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stupidly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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