stupid

[Stu·pid]

A stupid person doesn’t have much intelligence or imagination, and they go through life making decisions that seem to lack all common sense. If you’ve got a brain but you don’t use it, you might be a bit stupid.

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Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.

Noun
a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"

Adjective
lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity

Adjective
without much intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers"


a.
Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.

a.
Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.


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.
O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God!
With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood.
2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.
Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times.
Syn. -- Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- Stu"pid*ly , adv. -- Stu"pid*ness, n.

Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.

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Usage Examples

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I can't even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

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Other Usage Examples

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

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