incredulously

[ in-krej-uh-luhs-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that indicates or shows disbelief:
He looked incredulously at the lime jello embedded with tuna and mini marshmallows and asked, "Do people actually eat that?"
to a degree that is very difficult to believe; incredibly:
And then the defendant made a statement that was so incredulously stupid I had to laugh.

Are incredulously and incredibly synonyms? See incredibly ( def ).

First recorded in 1800–10; incredulous ( def ) + -ly ( def )

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