stupid
lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; slow-witted.
annoying or irritating; troublesome: Turn off that stupid radio.
in a state of stupor; stupefied: After a twelve-hour work day, she was stupid from fatigue.
Informal. a stupid person.
Origin of stupid
1confusables note For stupid
synonym study For stupid
Other words from stupid
- stu·pid·ly, adverb
- stu·pid·ness, noun
- un·stu·pid, adjective
- un·stu·pid·ly, adverb
- un·stu·pid·ness, noun
Words that may be confused with stupid
- ignorant, stupid , unintelligent
Words Nearby stupid
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How to use stupid in a sentence
If all “stupid grids” were replaced by smart grids, it would allow cities, for example, to manage production, storage, distribution and consumption of energy and to cut peaks in energy demand that would reduce CO2 emissions dramatically.
Use today’s tech solutions to meet the climate crisis and do it profitably | Walter Thompson | February 12, 2021 | TechCrunchI’m just going to make this as completely stupid as I want to be.
How Gideon the Ninth author Tamsyn Muir queers the space opera | Constance Grady | February 5, 2021 | VoxHer philosophy, onstage and off, is that not everybody is stupid, not only her views are right, and if we listen to those we disagree with instead of rolling our eyes, we might get somewhere.
What that story missed is that professional investors don’t underperform the market because they’re stupid.
Like, this thing will get published and then some Wyomingite will ride in on a horse and be all like, “Just kidding, we eat chicken wings at our Super Bowl parties, you stupid East Coast rube.”
The 2021 Super Bowl food map is a deep dive into America’s weird culinary underbelly | Matt Bonesteel | February 2, 2021 | Washington Post
Later, his turn as a lothario in the box office hit Crazy stupid Love made him even more swoon-worthy.
Contrary to What stupid Republicans Think… A completely different U.S. foreign policy may not be the answer.
P.J. O’Rourke on Foreign Policy and France, Hold the Swiss | P. J. O’Rourke | January 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs expected, initial reports were met with cries of “stupid!”
Will Valve’s New Steam Controller Revolutionize Video Game Play? | Alec Kubas-Meyer | September 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOn Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who said Republicans are acting like the stupid Party?
Donald Trump, Still Wacky, Rips Republicans at CPAC | Lauren Ashburn | March 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey did not pander to social-conservative populists, and no one would accuse them of representing the Party of stupid.
GOP Needs More Northeast Republicans to Save the Party | John Avlon | January 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTstupid things puns—made one myself then, though—just like me.
Frank Fairlegh | Frank E. Smedleystupid you were when you stole things out of my book—could you not guess that I might have read my own books?
Creditors; Pariah | August Strindbergstupid you were when you thought yourself cleverer than me, and when you thought that I could be lured into becoming a thief.
Creditors; Pariah | August Strindbergstupid you were when you thought balance could be restored by giving the world two thieves instead of one.
Creditors; Pariah | August Strindbergstupid Polish Majesty has his natural envies, jealousies, of a Brandenburg waxing over his head at this rate.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle
British Dictionary definitions for stupid
/ (ˈstjuːpɪd) /
lacking in common sense, perception, or normal intelligence
(usually postpositive) stunned, dazed, or stupefied: stupid from lack of sleep
having dull mental responses; slow-witted
trivial, silly, or frivolous
informal a stupid person
Origin of stupid
1Derived forms of stupid
- stupidly, adverb
- stupidness, noun
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