stupid
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-éh₁-ye-ti
Latin stup(eō)
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin stupidusder.
Middle French stupideder.
English stupid
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.
Inflected forms:
form: stupider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more stupid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stupidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most stupid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more stupid
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stupid
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: stupids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Without intelligence.
pos: adj
examples: It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
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
gloss: Without intelligence.
pos: adj
examples: So I have to pay first, and then wait in line? That's a stupid rule!
He made the stupid decision of standing in a half-hour queue for a hamburger, instead of calling ahead.
I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.
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
gloss: Without intelligence.
pos: adj
examples: The stupid rusty wire cut my thumb when I grabbed it.
Stupid sexy Flanders!
Marcie Linguini, who had come down with a stupid ear infection the day of Thanksgiving vacation, curled deeper into her bed.
gloss: Without intelligence.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: I fall for every stupid trick every stupid day in this whole stupid world!
Mom: Oh you stupid car! What's wrong with you now?!?
Calvin: That's it, Mom! Go ahead and swear! We don't mind!
Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid lima beans.
Dewey: "It's too narrow for all three of us. Oh, bummer!"
Huey: "Or we could just go single file."
Dewey: "Stupid smart Huey..."
gloss: To the point of stupor.
pos: adj
examples: Neurobiology bores me stupid.
I am not sure if he is stupid with tiredness or inebriety.
gloss: To the point of stupor.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe.
gloss: To the point of stupor.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Were it not for [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass.
gloss: To the point of stupor.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Amazing.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!
gloss: Extremely.
pos: adv
tags: slang
examples: My gear is stupid fly.
Richard DeLongpre: Aw, we did, didn't we? I'm sorry. I'm so stupid in love with you.
I'm your mother, sister, your father, brother / This family is stupid attractive
gloss: A stupid person; a fool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "You stupid!" screamed the girls, "we've got to guess the word. Now you'll have to go back and think of another."
"What a stupid I am!" Harry exclaimed, as she watched the man ride away in the distance.
Some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground.
At least those stupids got their money's worth out of this country before they burnt their lungs out.
gloss: The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: His stupid knows no bounds.
As long as our staff keeps giving us the stupid, we'll never get our work done.
Synonyms: daft
inept
addlebrained
addlepated
airheaded
bee-brained
beef-witted
beefheaded
beetle-headed
birdbrained
blockheaded
Boeotian
boneheaded
boofheaded
braindead
brainless
bubbleheaded
buffle-headed
bullet-headed
cerebrally challenged
childish
chowderheaded
chuckleheaded
crackbrained
cretinous
dense
dented
dim-bulb
dim-headed
dim-witted
dim
doltish
dopey
dozy
drowsy
dull-headed
dull-minded
dull-witted
dull
dumber than a box of rocks
dumb
dunderheaded
empty-headed
fatheaded
feeble-minded
flea-brained
foolish
fuzzy-headed
fuzzy-minded
goofy
half-brained
half-witted
hammer-headed
idiotic
ignorant
imbecilic
inane
insipid
intellectually challenged
knuckleheaded
lamebrained
lowbrow
lumpish
lunkheaded
mentally challenged
mentally retarded
mindless
monosynaptic
moronic
muttonheaded
nitwitted
numbskulled
oafish
obtuse
peabrained
pratty
pudding-headed
puerile
purblind
quarter-witted
retarded
ridiculous
rockheaded
sharp as a bowling ball
sheep-headed
silly
simple
slow
slow on the uptake
slow-witted
smooth-brained
stolid
stupid
thick-skulled
thickheaded
thickwitted
thick
unapprehensive
unclever
uninformed
unintelligent
unsmart
vacant
vacuous
witless
wooden-headed
wool-headed
woolly-headed
woolly-minded
dumb as a bag of hammers
dumb as a box of rocks
dumb as a doorknob
dumb as an ox
dumb as a post
dumb as a sack of hammers
dumb as dirt
dumber than a rock
not the sharpest crayon in the box
not the sharpest knife in the drawer
not the sharpest tool in the shed
thick as a brick
thick as a plank
thick as champ
thick as mince
thick as two short planks
thick as a whale omelette
ass-brained
fuckwitted
shit-for-brains
thick as pig shit
Antonyms: intelligent
nonstupid
Related words: stoopid
stupe
stupefy
stupendous
stupidity
stupor
half a brain
half a head
misinformed
Appendix:Snowclones/few X short of a Y
fool
idiot
insane
intelligence
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 450a. Absence of intellect
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 499. Imbecility
Derived words: ask a stupid question
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
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: зашеметен
roman: zašemeten
lang: Bulgarian
word: вцепенен
roman: vcepenen
lang: Dutch
word: idioot
lang: Italian
word: stupefatto
lang: Portuguese
word: estupidificado
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zatupljujući
lang: Spanish
word: estupefacto
lang: Spanish
word: zonzo
lang: Spanish
word: sonso
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: شاشقین
roman: şaşkın