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Stupid
Definitions
- 1 Without intelligence.; Lacking in intelligence.
"It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!"
- 2 Without intelligence.; Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
"So I have to pay first, and then wait in line? That's a stupid rule!"
- 3 Without intelligence.; Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
"The stupid rusty wire cut my thumb when I grabbed it."
- 4 Without intelligence.; Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such. euphemistic
"I fall for every stupid trick every stupid day in this whole stupid world!"
- 5 To the point of stupor.
"Neurobiology bores me stupid."
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- 6 To the point of stupor.; Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed. archaic
"No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe."
- 7 To the point of stupor.; Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate. archaic
"Were it not for [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass."
- 8 To the point of stupor.; Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
"She had never seen Frank Churchill so silent and stupid. He said nothing worth hearing—looked without seeing—admired without intelligence—listened without knowing what she said."
- 9 Amazing. slang
"That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!"
- 1 in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock wordnet
- 2 lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity wordnet
- 3 lacking intelligence wordnet
- 1 Extremely. slang
"My gear is stupid fly."
- 1 A stupid person; a fool. countable, uncountable
""You stupid!" screamed the girls, "we've got to guess the word. Now you'll have to go back and think of another.""
- 2 a person who is not very bright wordnet
- 3 The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness. colloquial, uncountable
"His stupid knows no bounds."
Etymology
From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-, *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old High German stubarōn (“to be astonished, be stunned, be blocked”). Related also to Old English stoppian (“to block, stop”). More at stop.
From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-, *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old High German stubarōn (“to be astonished, be stunned, be blocked”). Related also to Old English stoppian (“to block, stop”). More at stop.
From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-, *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old High German stubarōn (“to be astonished, be stunned, be blocked”). Related also to Old English stoppian (“to block, stop”). More at stop.
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