stupidly
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- adverb
- /ˈstuːpɪdli/
- Informal
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ridículamente
- The instructions were stupidly easy to follow, making the project a breeze.
- stupidly expensive
- stupidly dangerous
- grinned stupidly
Why do I have a stupidly high libido?
- Why do I have a stupidly high libido?
- This is part of an internal project that is super, super stupidly bright.
- But I, I don't, I haven't seen anything that says in in, in AI, this is what stupidly doesn't work or this is what really works.
Examples
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The guys around me were no help; they grinned stupidly at their desktops, contemplating artificial wood grains.
Fiction book (1995) -
That makes it stupidly intense and I kind of love it.
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The I mean like, like the the art of making someone feel seen and heard is stupidly simple, right?
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It's time for stupidly famous, stupidly famous, stupidly famous memory match.
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If it was 50 people, it would still be stupidly big.
Blog text (24) -
I'd agree that some stories are stupidly easy and some are hard.
Blog text (22) -
Fortunately, the solution turned out to be, yet again, stupidly simple.
Blog text (5) -
I'm stupidly in love with a wrestler.
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Stupidly expensive!
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With six mouths to feed, the seemingly small increases in everyday items become stupidly astronomical when compounded every month.
Blog text (5)
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Etymology
A helpful way to remember the informal meaning of stupidly is to think of it like 'really' or 'ridiculously'. It still links to the old word stupere ('to be stunned'): something so extreme it 'stuns' you, so people use stupidly to mean 'very' or 'extremely'.