Coviderally
Inflections coviderally
Used to intensify a statement in the manner of "literally," while simultaneously anchoring it to the era of the coronavirus pandemic; in actual fact, truly — as recollected from or pertaining to the pandemic years.
As a general emphatic, equivalent to "literally" but spoken with pandemic-era inflection.
“I coviderally remember buying a two-litre of milk from the McDonald's drive-through during the pandemic.”
— Professor Sendy
Specifically marking a recollection as genuinely belonging to the lockdown period, vouching that the detail is no exaggeration however improbable it now sounds.
“We coviderally were sanitising the groceries on the porch before bringing them inside.”
— Professor Sendy
Inflections legiterally
Used to intensify a statement, asserting that it is both legitimate and literal; genuinely, no exaggeration — with the colloquial assurance carried by "legit."
“He legiterally thinks that the earth isn't round — he thinks it's a triangle.”
— Professor Sendy
Inflections miderally
Used to intensify a statement while implying that the matter intensified is, on balance, mediocre or unremarkable; literally, yet with a shrug of the dismissive "mid."
“She miderally just gave me the biggest backhanded compliment of my life.”
— Professor Sendy
Synonyms
Word History
The Combo
covid literally Coviderally
lend of COVID (the colloquial name for the coronavirus pandemic of the early 2020s) and literally, the intensive adverb. The fusion seizes on the shared phonetic seam in which the final syllable of COVID glides into the body of literally, so that the speaker's emphatic "literally" is absorbed wholesale into the era under discussion. Coined by Professor Sendy as the flagship member of a productive family of -erally blends, in which any short attributive word (legit, mid, and so on) may be welded to literally to mark the register or vintage of the intensification.
First Known Use 2026
Coinage credited to Professor Sendy.
Attested in the source utterance, @ProfessorSendy ↗