fondlyadverb
uk/ˈfɒnd.li/us/ˈfɑːnd.li/fondly adverb (LIKING)
in a way that shows love or great liking:
He smiled fondly at the children.
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Loving and in love
- absence
- absence makes the heart grow fonder idiom
- adoring
- affection
- apple
- carry
- dear
- have (got) it bad idiom
- head over heels (in love) idiom
- infatuated
- infatuation
- live for sth/sb
- lose
- romance
- romantic
- serious
- smitten
- stuck
- sweep sb off their feet idiom
- take a shine to sb idiom
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fondly adverb (HOPING)
hoping that something will be true when it probably will not:
She fondly believed that he might come.
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Stupid and silly
- (as) thick as two short planks idiom
- absurd
- adolescent
- against your better judgment idiom
- asinine
- be crazy about sb/sth idiom
- certifiable
- dotty
- dozy
- drink, laugh, etc. yourself silly idiom
- drivel
- dumb
- gibber
- loony
- loopy
- lumpen
- lumpish
- madcap
- slow
- wrongheaded
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