Definition of STUPID

stupid

Plural: stupids

Noun

  • A person lacking intelligence or common sense.
  • a person who is not very bright
    • "The economy, stupid!"
  • A stupid person; a fool.
  • The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness.

Adjective

  • Lacking intelligence or common sense; foolish or unwise.
  • lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
  • lacking intelligence

Adjective Satellite

  • in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
    • "was stupid from fatigue"

Adj

  • Without intelligence.
  • Lacking in intelligence.
  • Without intelligence.
  • Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
  • Without intelligence.
  • Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
  • Without intelligence.
  • Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
  • To the point of stupor.
  • To the point of stupor.
  • Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
  • To the point of stupor.
  • Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
  • To the point of stupor.
  • Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
  • Amazing.

Adv

  • Extremely.

Examples

  • As long as our staff keeps giving us the stupid, we'll never get our work done.
  • Calling an opponent a ’STUPID’ after a bad play is poor Scrabble etiquette.
  • He made the stupid decision of standing in a three-hour queue for a burger.
  • His stupid knows no bounds.
  • I fall for every stupid trick every stupid day in this whole stupid world!
  • It felt stupid to miss such an obvious triple-word score opportunity.
  • It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
  • My gear is stupid fly.
  • Neurobiology bores me stupid.
  • So I have to pay first, and then wait in line? That's a stupid rule!
  • That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!
  • The stupid rusty wire cut my thumb when I grabbed it.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

dazed, dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stunned, stupe, stupefied, stupid person, unintelligent, Boeotian, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, ass-brained, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, boneheaded, boofheaded, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, daft, dense, dented, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwitted, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, inept, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, slow, slow-witted, smooth-brained, stolid, stupid, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, unapprehensive, unclever, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded

Antonyms

intelligent, smart

Scrabble Score: 9

stupid: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
stupid: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stupid: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

stupid: valid Words With Friends Word