idiotic

Modifies a noun

• rambling: Nick Jordan " Blog Archive " Sudoku The idiotic ramblings never stop.
• elevator: I'm stuck in an idiotic elevator at 1008-1/2 Fifth Avenue.
• mistake: No more am I the incompetent Arlene Rimmer, no more do I make idiotic mistakes.
• behavior: Focusing on a group of young people who indulge in erratic and idiotic behavior.
• idea: Just attend meetings, tell the others when they come up with idiotic ideas & disagree with policy in general.
• thing: Could you please help me on what idiotic thing I am doing wrong?

Modifying Another Word

• so: He thought to himself how could the world be so idiotic.
• completely: Wearing sunglasses indoors usually sends out some worrying but fairly straightforward messages: you're either impossibly arrogant, deeply insecure or completely idiotic.
• not: And they're intelligent thinking people -- not idiotic, useless, pathetic dumbos as the media likes to portray them!
• just: And if it's just idiotic, then it never hurts to behave better than an idiot.
• equally: Another, equally idiotic piece, involved someone having his arms and legs sawn off by a sadistic one-armed lunatic.
• absolutely: Certainly my two journeys to Bowness and back today were frought with absolutely idiotic behavior on the part of a few pedestrians.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Now that I thought about it, it seemed idiotic.
• look: Oddly enough, the boy looked more idiotic in this second picture.