Meaning of STUPID
| Pronunciation: | | 'stoopid
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- [n] a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"
- [adj] lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
- [adj] without much intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers"
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| | Synonyms: | | anserine, blockheaded, boneheaded, brainless, cloddish, dense, dim, dolt, doltish, dopey, dopy, dull, dullard, dumb, fatheaded, feebleminded, fool(a), foolish, gaumless, gooselike, goosey, goosy, gormless, half-witted, headless, imbecile, imbecilic, loggerheaded, lumpen, lumpish, moronic, nitwitted, obtuse, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, senseless, slow, slow-witted, soft-witted, stupid person, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, unthinking, witless, wooden-headed, yokel-like |
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| | Antonyms: | | intelligent, smart | | |
| | See Also: | | berk, retarded, simple, simpleton, stupid, unintelligent | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Stu"pid\, a. [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied:
cf. F. stupide.]
1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in
understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; --
said of persons.
O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As
to forsake the living God! --Milton.
With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he
stood. --Thomson.
2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without
skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.
Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in
corrupted times. --Swift.
Syn: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish;
sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- {Stu"pid*ly}, adv.
-- {Stu"pid*ness}, n.
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