stupidlyadv.

Brit.

/ˈstjuːpᵻdli/,

/ˈstʃuːpᵻdli/, U.S.

/ˈst(j)upədli/

Forms: see stupid adj., adv., and n. and -ly suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: stupid adj., -ly suffix².

Etymology: < stupid adj. + -ly suffix².Compare post-classical Latin stupide foolishly (16th cent.), Middle French, French stupidement (late 16th cent.).

1. In a way that shows a lack of intelligence, perceptiveness, or common sense; in a stupid or foolish manner.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adverb]

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blockishly1556

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obtusively1953

dopily1958

gormlessly1958

?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads xiv. 199 Comm. Notwithstanding he vtters enough to make a stone vnderstand it; how stupidly soeuer all his interpreters would haue Hector..turne about like a whirlewind.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 250 Would a person of Learning..be..so stupidly negligent as not to examin the Stone-Cutter's Work.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Ded. sig. C There was engraven on it, Plans of Cities, and Maps of Countries, which Ajax could not comprehend, but look'd on them as stupidly as his Fellow-Beast the Lion.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 165 They were all stupidly ignorant as to Matters of Religion.

1782 J. Wesley Let. 31 Dec. (1931) VII. 157 He has stupidly and saucily affronted almost all the leaders.

1851 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 414 We English are as stupidly servile in looking with reverence on all German philosophy, as we are stupidly conceited about our social institutions and manners.

1885 Manch. Examiner 25 Mar. 5/1 Nothing could be more stupidly false than such an impression.

1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 59 We are stupidly trying to make bricks without straw.

1946 Crookwell (New S. Wales) Gaz. 24 July 2/2 Even if V.D. was not contagious—and it very definitely is—it would be stupidly reckless not to seek immediate treatment.

1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xxii. 175 Stupidly, I expected her to have fond memories of it all.

2014 L. Rayven Bad Romeo xvi. 299 He told me this was how it was going to be.., but for some reason I stupidly thought I could change him.

†2. Without concern, care, or resistance; apathetically, indifferently, passively. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb]

unappassionately1598

stupidlya1626

dispassionately1717

impassively1828

apathetically1831

passionlessly1831

soullessly1832

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feelinglessly1856

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insensately1863

impassibly1872

unemotionally1884

stonily1899

insensitively1961

a1626 A. Lake Serm. (1629) 172 Let vs not continue stupidly in this distressing want, but importune him with King Dauids Restore, Restore mee to the ioy of thy saluation.

1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose iii. vi. 691 Bloody Papists must know, that Christians now are more Men, than either stupidly to surrender their throats to their Murdering swords, or supinely to suffer their villanie to pass unpunished.

1789 G. Townsend Acquiescence in Divine Will 22 To remain, stupidly unaffected, with providences that are calamitous—or..with indolence,..despise and reject the means of having things otherwise.

1828 Oriental Herald Apr. 77 The moment they [sc. monstrous laws] are abolished, all the world will wonder at having so long and so stupidly submitted to their controul.

1868 J. H. Van Evrie White Supremacy & Negro Subordination v. 59 Is it to be supposed that the real friends of humanity will stand stupidly looking on while the subordinate races of this continent are drifting back to their original savagery?

a. So as to be in a stupor; in a state of near unconsciousness or insensibility as a result of injury, illness, intoxication, etc. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [adverb] > in a stupefied manner

dazedlya1400

dazzlingly1610

stupidly1652

intoxicatedly1797

torpidly1820

1652 G. Tooke Hist. Cales Passion 30 The slaughter of such as were left behind,..still and stupidly surfet-seized.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing vii. 62 They that feel it not, are not less sick, but stupidly so.

1700 W. Baron Regicides 70 Most of them [sc. a group of traitors due to be executed] took..intoxicating Doses, to be sure Peters had so large a Potion, that he was stupidly drunk, which made Cook..say he fear'd him not fit to Suffer then.

1777 J. Mudge Diss. Inoculated Small-pox 75 You find your patient in the morning so stupidly heavy, oppressed, and indisposed to motion.

1821 O. Chase Narr. Shipwreck Whale-ship Essex 117 He spoke incoherently about everything.., and then lying stupidly and senselessly down in the boat again, would close his hollow eyes, as if in death.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 149 When ailing he sleeps long and stupidly.

1904 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 1 131 The dogs became depressed, and shortly after began to vomit repeatedly; they..lay about stupidly, or walked with a marked spastic gait in the hind legs.

1943 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 10 301 The person [affected by this type of epileptic seizure] may be too helpless and dazed to do more than lie stupidly in bed.

†b. As a result of mental abstraction or astonishment. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adverb] > through stupefaction

stupidly1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 465 That space the Evil one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remaind Stupidly good, of enmitie disarm'd.

c. In a dazed, bewildered, or vacant manner.

ΚΠ

1799 H. Hunter tr. C. S. Sonnini Trav. Upper & Lower Egypt II. xxvi. 146 The grenadier, motionless, and disconcerted; the two Egyptians staring stupidly on each other; me at a distance, biting my fingers with a look of..chagrin.

1865 E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune I. 259 It stared at her, stupidly, its round, chubby face streaked with tears and dirt.

1875 St. James's Holiday Ann. 19 Porkins was evidently muddle-headed that night, for..he again performed the same clumsy feat, and again fumbled stupidly with the coats before he got them hung up on the peg.

1912 Homœopathic World Feb. 78 Mother and father, brother and sister, neighbour and friend, ruler and priest, all stupidly agape at the marvels which heralded His birth.

2015 J. Abercrombie Half World 186 She struck him across the face with a sharp smack. He sat down hard in the dirt, blinking stupidly with blood pouring from his nose.

4. In an uninteresting, boring, or tiresome way; tediously. Cf. stupid adj. 4. Now rare except as merging into senses 1 and 6.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in wearisome or tedious manner

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drearily1579

dully1600

Welshly1629

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yawnfully1914

1723 Mem. Cardinal de Retz ii. 135 His Diction was short, and stupidly dull, and the more so, because he obscur'd it by Affectation.

1823 R. W. Ashworth Leisure Hours 30 'Twas Christmas, when evenings so stupidly long Are wont to be cheer'd by the dance or the song.

1848 H. Mayhew Model Women & Children ii. 55 Fishing is a different thing, but it's stupidly slow; she would as soon mend stockings any day.

1911 Young Woman's Jrnl. May 238/2 Biography and history, especially history, is often told in a stupidly dry fashion.

1938 Variety 3 Aug. 36/2 Fortunate for [the] program that Miss Bainter was appearing because otherwise it went stupidly dull whenever Edgar Bergen and McCarthy were absent.

5. English regional (Lancashire). Obstinately, stubbornly. Cf. stupid adj. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb]

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pertinaciouslya1614

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stupidly1866

dourly1871

bloody-mindedly1962

1866 J. T. Staton Rays fro th' Loominary 95 It may seem a sort uv a spooney peighnt [i.e. a foolish point] for a chap to stick so stupidly at.

1884 Methodist Mag. 52 Moffat stuck stupidly (this last word, in Lancashire, means resolute persistence in either a wise or foolish saying, or course) that he would go and hear Roby.

6. To a remarkable or excessive degree or extent; extraordinarily, extremely.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly

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Christly1923

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appallingly1937

stratospherically1941

Christ almighty1945

effing1945

focking1956

dagnab1961

drop-dead1980

hella1987

totes2006

1878 E. J. Worboise Brudenells of Brude xxviii. 303 What is the use of being so stupidly rich, if one cannot do as one likes about the family property?

1890 Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado) 23 Mar. 23/3 Everybody knows how stupidly hot it is in St. Louis. It was particularly so on that day.

1931 A. W. Cardinall Tales told in Togoland vii. 150 They..tell many tales as to how he grew such long ears and how his tail came to be so stupidly small.

1984 Los Angeles Times 24 Feb. (Calendar section) vi. 14 Recommended dishes include..two homemade chocolate desserts.., neither of them stupidly sweet but quite opulent enough.

2016 H. Billings Love, Yumi xliv. 482 Being stupidly famous lets you get away with a lot of shit.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stupidly
释义	stupidlyadv. Brit. /ˈstjuːpᵻdli/, /ˈstʃuːpᵻdli/, U.S. /ˈst(j)upədli/ Forms: see stupid adj., adv., and n. and -ly suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: stupid adj., -ly suffix². Etymology: < stupid adj. + -ly suffix².Compare post-classical Latin stupide foolishly (16th cent.), Middle French, French stupidement (late 16th cent.). 1. In a way that shows a lack of intelligence, perceptiveness, or common sense; in a stupid or foolish manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adverb] sotly1154 blately1513 grossly?1531 dully1533 blockishly1556 bluntly1557 buzzardly1561 sottishly1566 thickly1574 doltishly1580 witlessly1598 stupidiously1600 brainlessly1610 stupidly?1611 insulsely1637 uncleverly1697 numbskully1708 unintelligently1754 stupid?1757 duncishly1826 stockishly1846 sumphishly1850 simple-mindedly1851 obtusely1863 crassly1883 bovinely1900 unperceptively1935 simplistically1939 obtusively1953 dopily1958 gormlessly1958 ?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads xiv. 199 Comm. Notwithstanding he vtters enough to make a stone vnderstand it; how stupidly soeuer all his interpreters would haue Hector..turne about like a whirlewind. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 250 Would a person of Learning..be..so stupidly negligent as not to examin the Stone-Cutter's Work. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Ded. sig. C There was engraven on it, Plans of Cities, and Maps of Countries, which Ajax could not comprehend, but look'd on them as stupidly as his Fellow-Beast the Lion. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 165 They were all stupidly ignorant as to Matters of Religion. 1782 J. Wesley Let. 31 Dec. (1931) VII. 157 He has stupidly and saucily affronted almost all the leaders. 1851 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 414 We English are as stupidly servile in looking with reverence on all German philosophy, as we are stupidly conceited about our social institutions and manners. 1885 Manch. Examiner 25 Mar. 5/1 Nothing could be more stupidly false than such an impression. 1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 59 We are stupidly trying to make bricks without straw. 1946 Crookwell (New S. Wales) Gaz. 24 July 2/2 Even if V.D. was not contagious—and it very definitely is—it would be stupidly reckless not to seek immediate treatment. 1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xxii. 175 Stupidly, I expected her to have fond memories of it all. 2014 L. Rayven Bad Romeo xvi. 299 He told me this was how it was going to be.., but for some reason I stupidly thought I could change him. †2. Without concern, care, or resistance; apathetically, indifferently, passively. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb] unappassionately1598 stupidlya1626 dispassionately1717 impassively1828 apathetically1831 passionlessly1831 soullessly1832 stockishly1846 unresponsively1853 feelinglessly1856 stolidly1856 insensately1863 impassibly1872 unemotionally1884 stonily1899 insensitively1961 a1626 A. Lake Serm. (1629) 172 Let vs not continue stupidly in this distressing want, but importune him with King Dauids Restore, Restore mee to the ioy of thy saluation. 1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose iii. vi. 691 Bloody Papists must know, that Christians now are more Men, than either stupidly to surrender their throats to their Murdering swords, or supinely to suffer their villanie to pass unpunished. 1789 G. Townsend Acquiescence in Divine Will 22 To remain, stupidly unaffected, with providences that are calamitous—or..with indolence,..despise and reject the means of having things otherwise. 1828 Oriental Herald Apr. 77 The moment they [sc. monstrous laws] are abolished, all the world will wonder at having so long and so stupidly submitted to their controul. 1868 J. H. Van Evrie White Supremacy & Negro Subordination v. 59 Is it to be supposed that the real friends of humanity will stand stupidly looking on while the subordinate races of this continent are drifting back to their original savagery? 3. a. So as to be in a stupor; in a state of near unconsciousness or insensibility as a result of injury, illness, intoxication, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [adverb] > in a stupefied manner dazedlya1400 dazzlingly1610 stupidly1652 intoxicatedly1797 torpidly1820 1652 G. Tooke Hist. Cales Passion 30 The slaughter of such as were left behind,..still and stupidly surfet-seized. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing vii. 62 They that feel it not, are not less sick, but stupidly so. 1700 W. Baron Regicides 70 Most of them [sc. a group of traitors due to be executed] took..intoxicating Doses, to be sure Peters had so large a Potion, that he was stupidly drunk, which made Cook..say he fear'd him not fit to Suffer then. 1777 J. Mudge Diss. Inoculated Small-pox 75 You find your patient in the morning so stupidly heavy, oppressed, and indisposed to motion. 1821 O. Chase Narr. Shipwreck Whale-ship Essex 117 He spoke incoherently about everything.., and then lying stupidly and senselessly down in the boat again, would close his hollow eyes, as if in death. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 149 When ailing he sleeps long and stupidly. 1904 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 1 131 The dogs became depressed, and shortly after began to vomit repeatedly; they..lay about stupidly, or walked with a marked spastic gait in the hind legs. 1943 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 10 301 The person [affected by this type of epileptic seizure] may be too helpless and dazed to do more than lie stupidly in bed. †b. As a result of mental abstraction or astonishment. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adverb] > through stupefaction stupidly1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 465 That space the Evil one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remaind Stupidly good, of enmitie disarm'd. View more context for this quotation c. In a dazed, bewildered, or vacant manner. ΚΠ 1799 H. Hunter tr. C. S. Sonnini Trav. Upper & Lower Egypt II. xxvi. 146 The grenadier, motionless, and disconcerted; the two Egyptians staring stupidly on each other; me at a distance, biting my fingers with a look of..chagrin. 1865 E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune I. 259 It stared at her, stupidly, its round, chubby face streaked with tears and dirt. 1875 St. James's Holiday Ann. 19 Porkins was evidently muddle-headed that night, for..he again performed the same clumsy feat, and again fumbled stupidly with the coats before he got them hung up on the peg. 1912 Homœopathic World Feb. 78 Mother and father, brother and sister, neighbour and friend, ruler and priest, all stupidly agape at the marvels which heralded His birth. 2015 J. Abercrombie Half World 186 She struck him across the face with a sharp smack. He sat down hard in the dirt, blinking stupidly with blood pouring from his nose. 4. In an uninteresting, boring, or tiresome way; tediously. Cf. stupid adj. 4. Now rare except as merging into senses 1 and 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in wearisome or tedious manner irksomely1549 tediously1557 leaden-like1574 drearily1579 dully1600 Welshly1629 unlively1641 woodenly1653 stupidly1723 uninterestingly1793 soporifically1807 sloomy1820 wearyingly1829 boringly1840 tiresomely1847 aridly1883 drably1891 stuffily1894 stodgily1904 yawnsomely1908 yawnfully1914 1723 Mem. Cardinal de Retz ii. 135 His Diction was short, and stupidly dull, and the more so, because he obscur'd it by Affectation. 1823 R. W. Ashworth Leisure Hours 30 'Twas Christmas, when evenings so stupidly long Are wont to be cheer'd by the dance or the song. 1848 H. Mayhew Model Women & Children ii. 55 Fishing is a different thing, but it's stupidly slow; she would as soon mend stockings any day. 1911 Young Woman's Jrnl. May 238/2 Biography and history, especially history, is often told in a stupidly dry fashion. 1938 Variety 3 Aug. 36/2 Fortunate for [the] program that Miss Bainter was appearing because otherwise it went stupidly dull whenever Edgar Bergen and McCarthy were absent. 5. English regional (Lancashire). Obstinately, stubbornly. Cf. stupid adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb] stoutly1303 a-strut1330 sturdilyc1374 obstinately1395 throa1400 pertinacelyc1425 stubbornlyc1430 pertinatelyc1475 stiffneckedlya1555 peremptorilya1575 pertinaciouslya1614 tenaciouslya1667 mulishly1795 stupidly1866 dourly1871 bloody-mindedly1962 1866 J. T. Staton Rays fro th' Loominary 95 It may seem a sort uv a spooney peighnt [i.e. a foolish point] for a chap to stick so stupidly at. 1884 Methodist Mag. 52 Moffat stuck stupidly (this last word, in Lancashire, means resolute persistence in either a wise or foolish saying, or course) that he would go and hear Roby. 6. To a remarkable or excessive degree or extent; extraordinarily, extremely. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 1878 E. J. Worboise Brudenells of Brude xxviii. 303 What is the use of being so stupidly rich, if one cannot do as one likes about the family property? 1890 Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado) 23 Mar. 23/3 Everybody knows how stupidly hot it is in St. Louis. It was particularly so on that day. 1931 A. W. Cardinall Tales told in Togoland vii. 150 They..tell many tales as to how he grew such long ears and how his tail came to be so stupidly small. 1984 Los Angeles Times 24 Feb. (Calendar section) vi. 14 Recommended dishes include..two homemade chocolate desserts.., neither of them stupidly sweet but quite opulent enough. 2016 H. Billings Love, Yumi xliv. 482 Being stupidly famous lets you get away with a lot of shit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.?1611
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