stupid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstjuː.pɪd/
ipa: /ˈʃtjuː.pɪd/
ipa: /st͡ʃjuː.pɪd/
ipa: /ˈst(j)upɪt/
ipa: /ˈst(j)u.pɪd/
ipa: /ˈʃt͡ʃjʉː.pɪd/
ipa: /sʈ(j)ʊˈpɪɖ/
rhymes: -uːpɪd
Forms: form: stupider
form: more stupid
form: stupidest
form: most stupid
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.
Senses: examples: text: It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
text: And it would be a fine proposition
If I was a stupid girl
But honey, I am no one's exception
This I have previously learned
ref: 2012, Taylor Swift, “Girl at Home”, in Red, performed by Taylor Swift:
glosses: Without intelligence.
Lacking in intelligence.
raw_tags: of animates
examples: text: So I have to pay first, and then wait in line? That's a stupid rule!
text: He made the stupid decision of standing in a half-hour queue for a hamburger, instead of calling ahead.
text: I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.
ref: 2014 May 1, John Barker, Futures: A Novel, PM Press, page 131:
text: You can kiss a hundred boys in bars
Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling
You can say it's just the way you are
Make a new excuse, another stupid reason
ref: 2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”performed by Chappell Roan:
glosses: Without intelligence.
Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
examples: text: The stupid rusty wire cut my thumb when I grabbed it.
text: Marcie Linguini, who had come down with a stupid ear infection the day of Thanksgiving vacation, curled deeper into her bed.
ref: 1982 December 11, Andrea Loewenstein, “The Joys of Community or Holiday-itis Strikes Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 12:
glosses: Without intelligence.
Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
examples: text: I fall for every stupid trick every stupid day in this whole stupid world!
text: Mom: Oh you stupid car! What's wrong with you now?!?
Calvin: That's it, Mom! Go ahead and swear! We don't mind!
ref: 1986 February 23, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
text: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid lima beans.
ref: 1986 April 7, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
text: Dewey: "It's too narrow for all three of us. Oh, bummer!"
Huey: "Or we could just go single file."
Dewey: "Stupid smart Huey..."
ref: 2018, “The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!”, in DuckTales:
glosses: Without intelligence.
Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
qualifier: by association
examples: text: Neurobiology bores me stupid.
text: I am not sure if he is stupid with tiredness or inebriety.
glosses: To the point of stupor.
examples: text: No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe.
ref: 1702, Alexander Pope, Sappho, section 128:
glosses: To the point of stupor.
Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
examples: text: Were it not for [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass.
ref: 1744, George Berkeley, Siris, §190:
glosses: To the point of stupor.
Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 7:
glosses: To the point of stupor.
Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
examples: text: That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!
glosses: Amazing.
Synonyms: word: daft
word: inept
word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
Hypernyms: word: lacking
word: weak-minded
Derived terms: el stupido
hit with the stupid stick
McStupid
nonstupid
outstupid
play stupid
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
semistupid
squid
stupid-ass
stupidass
stupid drunk
stupid-head
stupidicy
stupidification
stupidify
stupid is as stupid does
stupidish
stupidism
stupidity
stupidly
stupidness
stupid o'clock
stupidship
stupidstitious
stupid tax
stupidy
there are no stupid questions
there's no such thing as a stupid question
unstupid
you can't fix stupid
Related terms: word: stoopid
word: stupe
word: stupefy
word: stupendous
word: stupidity
word: stupor
word: half a brain
word: half a head
word: Appendix:Snowclones/few X short of a Y
word: fool
word: idiot
word: ignorant
word: insane
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 450a. Absence of intellect
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 499. Imbecility