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STUPID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is not very bright
Example:
The economy, stupid!
Synonyms:
dolt; dullard; pillock; poor fish; pudden-head; pudding head; stupe; stupid; stupid person
Classified under:
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
Example:
was stupid from fatigue
Synonyms:
dazed; stunned; stupefied; stupid
Classified under:
Similar:
confused (mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
Classified under:
Similar:
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)
gaumless; gormless ((British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality)
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 3
Meaning:
Lacking intelligence
Example:
a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers
Synonyms:
stupid; unintelligent
Classified under:
Adjectives
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:
“I feel quite stupid. It must be sitting up so late last night. Fanny, you must do something to keep me awake. I cannot work. Fetch the cards; I feel so very stupid.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She had never seen Frank Churchill so silent and stupid.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Sir John is as stupid as the weather.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“Dear me, how very stupid of me, to be sure! Good-morning, miss, and many thanks for having relieved my mind.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was dazed and stupid with pain and terror and weakness, but the sound of the nightingale seemed like the voice of my dead mother come back to comfort me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He was still standing, stupid and bewildered, the memories forgotten, wondering what it was all about, when Kiche attacked him a third time, intent on driving him away altogether from the vicinity.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I was feeling drowsy and stupid, partly from my dinner and also from the effects of a long day’s work.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And then, as Morgan rolled back to his seat, Silver added to me in a confidential whisper that was very flattering, as I thought, He's quite an honest man, Tom Morgan, on'y stupid.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
