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STUPID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stupid mean?
• STUPID (noun)
The noun STUPID has 1 sense:
1. a person who is not very bright
Familiarity information: STUPID used as a noun is very rare.
• STUPID (adjective)
The adjective STUPID has 3 senses:
1. lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
2. in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
3. lacking intelligence
Familiarity information: STUPID used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is not very bright
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
dolt; dullard; pillock; poor fish; pudden-head; pudding head; stupe; stupid; stupid person
Context example:
The economy, stupid!
Hypernyms ("stupid" is a kind of...):
simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stupid"):
berk (a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of)
blockhead; bonehead; dumbass; dunce; dunderhead; fuckhead; hammerhead; knucklehead; loggerhead; lunkhead; muttonhead; numskull; shithead (a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence)
klutz ((Yiddish) a clumsy dolt)
Derivation:
stupid (lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity)
stupid (lacking intelligence)
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: stupidest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
Similar:
gaumless; gormless ((British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality)
yokel-like (stupid and ignorant like proverbial rural inhabitants)
weak (deficient in intelligence or mental power)
nitwitted; senseless; soft-witted; witless ((of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment)
lumpen; lumpish; unthinking (mentally sluggish)
dense; dim; dull; dumb; obtuse; slow (slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity)
cloddish; doltish (heavy and dull and stupid)
blockheaded; boneheaded; duncical; duncish; fatheaded; loggerheaded; thick; thick-skulled; thickheaded; wooden-headed ((used informally) stupid)
asinine; fatuous; inane (extremely silly or stupid)
anserine; dopey; dopy; foolish; gooselike; goosey; goosy; jerky (having or revealing stupidity)
Also:
stupid; unintelligent (lacking intelligence)
Antonym:
smart (showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness)
Derivation:
stupid (a person who is not very bright)
stupidity (a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
Synonyms:
dazed; stunned; stupefied; stupid
Context example:
was stupid from fatigue
Similar:
confused (mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Lacking intelligence
Synonyms:
stupid; unintelligent
Context example:
a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers
Similar:
brainless; headless (not using intelligence)
Also:
stupid (lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity)
retarded (relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development)
Attribute:
intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)
Derivation:
stupid (a person who is not very bright)
stupidity (a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience)
Context examples
On her stupid, cross old Peggotty's arm again.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Come, Darcy,” said he, “I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing about by yourself in this stupid manner. You had much better dance.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
And you, Miss Morland—my stupid sister has mistaken all your clearest expressions.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"No," I heard her say: "she looks too stupid for any game of the sort."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I couldn't seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He felt stupid and awkward, but for the life of him he could think of nothing to say.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He was universally reckoned the most ignorant and stupid person among them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
An aged count once lived in Switzerland, who had an only son, but he was stupid, and could learn nothing.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I am unable to follow you.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It was stupid of me, I know.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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