stupid 
stu·pid (sto̵̅o̅′pid, styo̵̅o̅′-)
adjective
- in a state of stupor; dazed; stunned; stupefied
- lacking normal intelligence or understanding; slow-witted; dull
- showing or resulting from a lack of normal intelligence; foolish; irrational a stupid idea
- dull and boring; tiresome [a stupid party]: also used informally as a generalized term of disapproval a stupid hat
Etymology: L stupidus < stupere, to be stunned or amazed < IE *steup-, to strike: see steep
noun
a stupid person
stupid
modif.
Foolish
senseless, brainless, idiotic, simple, ignorant, shallow, ill-advised, imprudent, witless, irrational, inane, ridiculous, mindless, ludicrous, blind, muddled, absurd, half-witted, funny, comical, silly, laughable, nonsensical, daft, illogical, indiscreet, unintelligent, irresponsible, coquettish, shallow-brained, scatterbrained, crackbrained, addled, inconsistent, flirting, unwary, incautious, misguided, wild, injudicious, imbecile, addleheaded, lunatic, insane, mad, crazy, moronic, touched, freakish, comic, puerile, inexpedient, narrow-minded, incoherent, childish, anile, senile, monstrous, outrageous, far-fetched, extravagant, preposterous, unreasonable, chimerical, asinine, useless, unwise, thoughtless, careless, vain, fatuous, light, light-headed, flighty, madcap, giddy, cuckoo*, dippy*, not seeking for looking*, boneheaded*, goofy*, cracked*, dumb*, half-baked*, in the dark*, having a block for a head*, not knowing what's what*, in darkness*, dead to the world*, in a daze*, knowing nothing*, groping in the dark*, green*, wacky*, harebrained*, tetched*, damn-fool*, block-headed*, not seeing an inch beyond one's nose*, screwy*, bats*, cock-eyed*, loony*, batty*, nutty*. * Antonyms
sane*, wise*, judicious. * Dull
dense, obtuse, slow, retarded, dull-witted; see also dull 3, shallow 2. See syn. study at silly.
stupid implies a lack of intelligence or an incapacity for perceiving or learning such as might be shown by one in a mental stupor a stupid idea; dull implies a mental sluggishness that may be constitutional or may result from fatigue, disease, etc. the fever left me dull and listless; dense suggests obtuseness, or an irritating failure to understand quickly or to react intelligently too dense to take a hint; slow suggests that the quickness to learn, but not necessarily the capacity for learning, is below average a pupil slow in most studies; retarded is applied to those behind others of the same age or class because of mental deficiency a retarded pupil
Modifying Another Word
- terminally: Only the terminally stupid allow phobias to develop into racist theories.
- downright: It may well be a matter of the heart, but that makes it irrational even if it is not downright stupid!
- incredibly: Do the people who believe this crap not realize how incredibly stupid this is?
- unbelievably: Oh, all right, if you insist, but this is all so unbelievably stupid and tedious.
- plain: Yet I wasn't naïve, I was just plain stupid.
Infinitive complement
- realize: That young Hoon must be blind or stupid to not realize he was asking for trouble with this kind of venture.
- believe: Surely there is no-one stupid enough to actually believe this nonsense?
- think: Are you really stupid enough to think that it will help the situation?
Modifies a noun
- grin: That we can hear slightly muffled, sitting in the sun grinning big stupid grins, not believing our luck?
- idiot: I've copied the email:- Hi ya sue I'm so very sorry I'm such a stupid idiot.
- mistake: Which was a stupid mistake which there is no going back from.
- bitch: Why do you think I let him out, you stupid bitch?
- bastard: Royal Mail's top bosses may be bastards, but they are not all entirely stupid bastards.
- remark: I hope that I haven't made too many stupid remarks this evening.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: I'd feel stupid trying to phone or dropping them a note or whatever!
- look: XXX you're just making yourself look more stupid now!
- seem: Seems stupid to me, you cannot transfer to any other machine.
- sound: Sarah could not quite believe what she had seen and did not want to say anything that might sound stupid.
- appear: He may often appear stupid, and is inclined to be resentful of more spiritual types.
The better the actor the more stupid he is.
The economy, stupid!
If someone was stupid enough to offer me a million dollars to make a pictureöI was certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
The more books one reads, the more stupid one becomes.
He has all the qualities that go to the making of a leader of the Conservative Party. He is not stupid, but he is very dull. He is not eloquent, but he talks well. He is not honest, politically, but he is most evangelical.He has a Beckett little money, but not much. He always conforms to the party policy.
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half'. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
The great and almost onlycomfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
I am more stupid about some things than about others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well- rounded person.
The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention. He generally becomes asstupidand ignorant asit ispossible for a human creature to become.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Whena stupid manisdoing something heisashamedof, he always declares that it is his duty.
That man must be very much absorbed in reflection, or stupid, or sulky, or unhappy, or a mere hog at his trough, who is not moved to say something when he dines.
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?
Browse dictionary entries near stupid
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- ‹ stupefied
- ‹ stupefaction
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- ‹ stupe
- ‹ stupa
- ‹ stuntwoman
- ‹ stuntman
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