Stupid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stupid \Stu"pid\, a. [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied:
     cf. F. stupide.]
     1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in
        understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; --
        said of persons.
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              O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . .
              As to forsake the living God!         --Milton.
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              With wild surprise,
              A moment stupid, motionless he stood. --Thomson.
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     2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without
        skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.
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              Observe what loads of stupid rhymes
              Oppress us in corrupted times.        --Swift.
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     Syn: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish;
          sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- {Stu"pid*ly}, adv.
          -- {Stu"pid*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stupid
       adj 1: lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity [ant: {smart}]
       2: in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from
          shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay
          semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was
          stupid from fatigue" [syn: {dazed}, {stunned}, {stupefied},
           {stupid(p)}]
       3: without much intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and
          unintelligent co-workers" [syn: {unintelligent}] [ant: {intelligent}]
       n : a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"
           [syn: {stupid person}, {dullard}, {dolt}, {pudding head},
            {pudden-head}, {poor fish}, {pillock}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  179 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupid":
     Boeotian, absurd, addled, apish, asinine, backward, balmy, barmy,
     batty, beef-brained, beef-witted, beetleheaded, befooled, beguiled,
     besotted, blear-eyed, blear-witted, block, blockheaded, blockish,
     boneheaded, bootless, boring, bovine, brainless, brute, brutish,
     buffoonish, chuckleheaded, chumpish, clod, cloddish, cockamamie,
     cockeyed, cowish, crass, crazy, credulous, cretinous, cuckoo,
     daffy, daft, dazed, dense, dim, dim-witted, dimwit, dizzy, dolt,
     doltish, donkey, dope, dopey, doting, dozy, dull, dull-witted,
     dullard, dullhead, dumb, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy,
     dunce, duncical, duncish, empty-headed, fat, fatheaded, fatuitous,
     fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, foolish,
     frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, goosey, gowk, gross,
     gulled, half-assed, half-baked, half-witted, ho-hum, humdrum,
     idiot, idiotic, ignoramus, ill-advised, imbecile, imbecilic, inane,
     ineducable, inept, infatuated, insane, insipid, irrational,
     irresponsible, jerky, jobbernowl, klutzy, kooky, lackwit,
     lamebrain, laughable, lightweight, looby, loon, loony, ludicrous,
     lumbering, lumpish, mad, maudlin, mindless, monotonous, moron,
     moronic, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy,
     nonsensical, numskulled, nutty, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinhead,
     prosaic, put, retarded, ridiculous, risible, sappy, scatterbrained,
     screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleton, slow,
     slow-witted, sluggish, sottish, stolid, subnormal, tedious, thick,
     thick-witted, thickheaded, thickwit, thoughtless, tiresome, torpid,
     unimaginative, uninspired, unintelligent, uninteresting,
     unteachable, vacuous, vapid, wacky, weak-minded, wet, witless,
     witling, wrongheaded