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Stupid

Definition: Stupid

Stupid

Adjective

1. Lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity.

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".

3. Without much intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers".

Noun

1. A person who is not very bright: "The economy, stupid!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stupid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Stupid \Stu"pid\, adjective. [Latin expression stupidus, from stupere to be stupefied: compare to the French expression stupide.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Stupid

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

Austrian (deppert), Basque (tentelapika, tentelapiko), Catalan (fato, gamarus, tòtil ), German (Dumpfbacke), Greek (malakas), Hungarian (agyilag zokni , hülye, marha , szellemi rövidnadrágos), Italian (budiùlo, coglione), Japanese (baka ), Korean (doltaegari), Spanish (agilipollao , gilipollas). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Stupid

Synonyms: dazed (adj), stunned (adj), stupefied (adj), stupid(p) (adj), unintelligent (adj), dolt (n), dullard (n), poor fish (n), pudden-head (n), pudding head (n), stupid person (n). (additional references)
Antonyms: intelligent (adj), smart (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Stupid

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Credulity

Adjective: credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated,Adjective: credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding; (believing).

Dullness

Stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous; melancholic; stolid; plodding.

Imbecility Folly

Shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous.

Foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical; extravagant; (nonsensical); sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless; inexpedient; frivolous; (trivial).

Misjudgment

Narrow-minded, narrow-souled; mean-spirited; confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete, positive, dogmatic, conceited; opinative, opiniative; opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opini_tre; bigoted; (obstinate); crotchety, fussy, impracticable; unreasonable, stupid; credulous; warped.

Unskillfulness

Inapt, unapt; inhabile; untractable, unteachable; giddy; (inattentive); inconsiderate; (neglectful); stupid; inactive; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified; unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice.

Weariness

Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Stupid

English words defined with "stupid": stupid person. (references)
Specialty definitions using "stupid": Ague-cheek, Ass's BridgeBabooze, Balmawhapple, BEETLE-HEADED, berberder, BFSMR, brown paper bag bug, Buffalo, BUFFLE-HEADEDcard walloper, CHAW BACON, CHUCKLE-HEADED, Clever, COD'S HEADDiary, dickchode, dipso, drag-n-drop, DULL SWIFTEgg Nog, elevator controllerFAT HEADED, Flat-fishGiantshacked off, hysterical reasonsJack-a-napes, janky, John-a-DreamsKISS PrincipleLOUT, lyremongoojing, MOPED, MUTTON-HEADEDnon-optimal solution, NUMBSCULLPEBKAC, Pudden head, PUDDING-HEADED FELLOWRecoculous, Riquet with a TuftSINNER, Smart, Stupid BoyThat sucks a monk., That's gay., Things Hackers Detest and Avoid, three-letter acronymYour Cut. (references)
Etymologies containing "stupid": Underhead. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Stupid" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (bovine, brainless, mindless), Romanian (doltish, dull, dull-witted, foolish, foolishly, Goosey, idiotic, idiotical, idle, inane, inept, insipid, mindless, senseless, silly, stupid, stupidly, wooden-headed), Turkmen (straw saman kelle).

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Modern Usage: Stupid

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Should we, or should we not follow the advice of the galactically stupid! (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Honey, just cuz I talk slow doesn't mean I'm stupid. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

The stupid head (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

Ballsy. Stupid but ballsy (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

Stupid is as stupid does (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Lyrics

You stupid girl (Stupid Girl; performing artist: Garbage)

Stupid yo (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

What stupid poem could fix this home (Stay Together For The Kids; performing artist: Blink-182)

And thought of all the stupid things I'd done (Trouble; performing artist: Coldplay)

But some stupid with a flare gun (Smoke on the Water; performing artist: Deep Purple)

Clever

Can a stupid person be a smart-ass? (references; author: unknown)

If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid. (references; author: unknown)

God must love stupid people--He made so many. (references; author: unknown)

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. (references; author: unknown)

To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Stupid Kiss Me (1964)

Plane Stupid (1963)

The Stupid Cupid (1944)

Stupid Mr. Cupid (1908)

You Stupid Man (2002)

Song Titles

Stupid Girl (performing artist: Garbage)

Somethin' Stupid (performing artist: Nancy and Frank Sinatra)

Something Stupid (performing artist: Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman)

Dare To Be Stupid (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Stupid

DomainTitle

Books

  • Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! (reference)

  • A Slew of Stupid Criminals: Plus Some Spectacular Misspelling & Other Atrocious Crimes (reference)

  • Stupid Sex: The Most Idiotic and Embarrassing Intimate Encounters of All Time (reference)

  • The Little Book of Stupid Questions: 300 Hilarious, Bold, Embarrassing, Personal, and Basically Pointless Queries (reference)

  • Duh! 2003 Block Calendar: The Stupid History of the Human Race (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Stupid

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Photo Album: Stupid

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Doonesbury. Whoosh! I didn't really want you anyway, you stupid mourning cloak. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Stupid
 

"Stupid bear" by Vincze Ildi
Commentary: "Stupid bear."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Stupid".

PlayCaption
Goofy; guffaw; daffy; dippy; fool; foolish; idiotic; inane; irrational; nonsensical; jokey; joshing; kooky; laughable; loony; ludicrous; nutty; senseless; silly; stupid; tomfool; wacky;; absurd; batty; boffo; comic; comical; facetious; farcical; foolheade.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Stupid

AuthorQuotation

George Eliot

Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.

Gustave Flaubert

Concern with morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

John Stuart Mill

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

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Louis Agassiz

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Thomas Carlyle

The archenemy is the arch stupid!

Thomas Szasz

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

Voltaire

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Stupid

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Emma guessed him to be the drudge of some attorney, and too stupid to rise

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

He evidently feared that, stupid as she looked, she understood what she said this time, and was having a joke at his expense

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Everything else appeared to him very stupid.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Noah moved slowly, spoke seldom, and then so slowly that people who did not know him often thought him stupid.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

He was universally reckoned the most ignorant and stupid person among them

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Stupid

SubjectTopicQuote

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing. Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ All that he had of wisdom and of wit. So the Recording Angel, when Hearst died, Erased all entries of his own and cried: "I'll judge you by your diary." Said Hearst: "Thank you; 'twill show you I am Saint the First" -- Straightway producing, jubilant and proud, That record from a pocket in his shroud. The Angel slowly turned the pages o'er, Each stupid line of which he knew before, Glooming and gleaming as by turns he hit On Shallow sentiment and stolen wit; Then gravely closed the book and gave it back. "My friend, you've wandered from your proper track: You'd never be content this side the tomb -- For big ideas Heaven has little room, And Hell's no latitude for making mirth," He said, and kicked the fellow back to earth. "The Mad Philosopher"

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Stupid

SpeakerPhrase(s)

James Dobson

We are very flawed individuals. I want to tell you my prayer for myself is that I will finish strong and not make one of those stupid mistakes that will embarrass the cause of Christ. That's my passion.

Kevin Kline

Mr. Bell, a word of warning, as the great wit Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated, youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Paula Poundstone

Well, it sounds stupid now coming from me, I suppose, but I wanted to do something I thought was important. And actually, you know, I did a good job. I mean, I did a good job until the point at which I didn't do a good job and then I made some mistakes.

Rush Limbaugh

Whenever someone asks an absolutely stupid question, they will win the Katie Couric Award for that day.

Sylvia Browne

Nothing wrong with saying that. I think the more honest we are with children, the better because kids are not stupid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Stupid

"Stupid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.74% of the time. "Stupid" is used about 3,278 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)97.74%3,2042,953
Noun (proper)2.16%7139,674
Noun (singular)0.09%3202,518
                    Total100.00%3,278N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Stupid

Expressions using "stupid": becoming stupid damn stupid do a stupid thing do such a stupid thing grow stupid make stupid render stupid stupid bastard stupid cow stupid fool stupid grin stupid person stupid thing stupid tricks unutterably stupid. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "stupid": stupid-looking, stupid-sort.

Ending with "stupid": all-stupid, deaf-and-stupid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stupid

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stupid girl

993

game stupid

94

stupid

980

stupid stunt

86

stupid video

807

something stupid

86

stupid law

341

stupid cupid

78

stupid people

338

news stupid

76

stupid picture

311

cupid lyrics stupid

75

stupid quote

271

article can day editor father front page putting really should someone stupid such tastless

74

stupid joke

236

drunk stupid

74

cold girl stupid

228

behavior caught stupid tape

69

girl lyrics stupid

183

stupid web site

68

cold girl lyrics stupid

179

stupid pic

68

stupid videos.com

173

broads stupid

67

stupid stuff

172

stupid sign

57

stupid question

168

stupid things

55

stupid fact

144

movie stupid

44

stupid criminal

122

stupid bitch

42

stupid test

119

stupid invader

41

stupid white man

109

behavior stupid

39

stupid saying

105

people picture stupid

38

quiz stupid

105
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stupid

Language Translations for "stupid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

dom (addled, foolish). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

tarallak (buzzard, dull, dull fellow, idiot, simpleton), marrë (addled, foolish), i trullosur (besotted, dizzy, light-headed, punchy, slaphappy, sodden, sottish), i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed), budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

بلها (silly), ‏فارغ (barren, blank, empty, flatulent, hollow, idle, inane, leisure, meaningless, pointless, senseless, silly, vacuous, vain, windy), ‏ملعون (abominable, accursed, cursed, damn, damned, detestable, evil, execrable, god-damn, wicked), ‏مغفل (dense, dolt, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, fat-witted, fool, foolish, licentious, moronic, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, pointless, rubbishy, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, soft-headed, softy, thick-headed, weak-minded), ‏معتوه (batty, cracked, crackpot, crazy, demented, dim witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, mentally deranged, off his head, possessed, screwy, sodden, soft-headed, up the pole, witless), ‏مخدر (anaesthetic, anaesthetized, anesthetic, anesthetized, benumbed, dope, doped, drug, drugged, narcosis, narcotic, narcotized, opiate, pain killer, somnolent, soporific, stupefied, torpid), ‏مخبول (crack-brained, crazed, demented, fool, idiotic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, mentally deranged, off his head, out of one's mind, potty, touched), ‏حمار (ass, burro, donkey, jackass, loutish), ‏غبي (asinine, dense, dick, dim witted, drip, dull, dullard, empty headed, fathead, jerk, lacking, lunatic, moronic, opaque, patsy, plonker, sap, slow witted, soppy, thick, thick-headed, thickish, thick-witted, tomfool, twerp, uncivil, unintelligent, wooden), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏الأحمق (blockhead, goof, idiot, numskull, oaf, soft, zany), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), ‏أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, cuckoo, daw, dense, dim witted, dullard, fatuous, feeble minded, gaga, gawky, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, lemon, mad, patsy, screwed, sheepish, silly, sod, sodden, softy, soppy, stick in the mud, vacant, vacuous, wood-headed), ‏بليد (bovine, dim, doltish, dopey, dull, inanimate, lethargic, light minded, lumpish, obtuse, passive, silly, sleepy, slow, slow moving, sluggish, thick-headed, torpid, unworkable). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тъп (asinine, blunt, bovine, cloddish, crass, dense, dim, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dull, dumb, gross, hollow, impenetrable, lumpish, muddle-headed, obtuse, opaque, puddingy, purblind, slow, sodden, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, torpid, unpointed, wooden-headed), глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), безсмислен (absurd, aimless, futile, inane, insensate, inutile, meaningless, mindless, needless, nonsense, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, purposeless, senseless, sorry, tomfool, unmeaning, vacuous, vain), безинтересен (characterless, chippy, dim, frumpish, incurious, languid, milk and water, mousey, sapless, soulless, unamusing, uninteresting, unreadable, vegetable, vegetal, warmed-over). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

愚笨 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

zatracený (blessed, bloody, blooming, confounded, damned, darned, deuced), tupý (blunt, brutish, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, empty headed, indocile, mindful, obtuse, pointless, stolid, thickheaded, torpid, vacant, vacuous), hloupý (awkward, brainless, cretinous, daft, dull, empty headed, fatuous, fat-witted, foolish, half-witted, inane, lame brain, logy, mutton-headed, silly, soft-brained, spoony, thick, thickskulled), blbý (bloody, idiotic, jerked). (various references)

   

Danish

  

dum (addled, foolish). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

simpel (dull, simple, straightforward), onnozel (dull, guiltless, innocent, insignificant, minor, naïf, naïve, naif, trifling), flauw (dull), dom (addled, cathedral, dull, foolish, obtuse, stupidly). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

stulta (foolish), malsprita (dull). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

tápuligur (addled, foolish). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نفهم (Hick, Incapable), کندذهن (Dimwit, Imbecile, Obtuse), گیج (Astound, Astray, Dizzy, Giddy, Harebrained, Hazy, Wacky), خنگ (Dense), احمق (Asinine, Cockeyed, Cockscomb, Daft, Dense, Dopey, Dult, Fool, Gawky, Gosling, Hick, Inane, Loggerhead, Loony, Natural, Nincompoop, Noodle, Sawney, Senseless, Simpleton, Sot, Spoony, Sucker, Unmeaning), دبنگ . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tyhmä (addled, dense, dull, foolish, silly, thick-headed, unwise). (various references)

   

French

  

sot, stupide, idiot. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

oaljedom (as stupid as an ass), kowedom (as stupid as an ass). (various references)

   

German

  

dumm (addled, asinine, blockish, brainless, dull, dully, dumb, fatuous, foolish, footling, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inanely, oafish, obtuse, purblindly, silly, stupidly, thick, thumb, unintelligent), blödsinnig (asinine, barmy, dull, idiotic, idiotically, imbecilic, rubbishy), albern (absurd, addled, clownish, fatuous, fatuously, foolish, footling, giggly, inane, inanely, ludicrous, ridiculous, silly, simper, simpering, simperingly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κουτόσ (dense, obtuse, purblind), βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, sucker, tomfool, zany), βλαξ (goon, gudgeon, imbecile, lummox, simp, simpleton, slob, tomfool, zany), βλαμμένος (dopey, foolish, jerk), χαζόσ (muggins, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, rubberneck, simp, simperer, simpleton, soft-headed, twit, witless), χαζός (bozo, dumb, fool, foolish, silly), ηλίθιοσ (booby, clot, cretin, dopey, dull, dumb, fool, gawky, goofy, goon, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, mooncalf, moronic, nitwit, poky, sap-head, sheepish, sottish, thick). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

marrë (addled, foolish). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מגוחך (absurd, farcical, grotesque, ludicrous, mock, preposterous, ridiculous), מטומטם (bird brained, dense, dopey, dullard, gaga, goon, half wit, halfwitted, imbecile, lame brain, lout, muddleheaded, oafish, obtuse, sot, thickheaded, woodenheaded), מטופש (inane), שוטה (barmy, brainless, daft, dolt, dupe, fool, idiot, imbecile, noodle, oaf, sappy, silly), אוילי (asinine, dense, fatuous, foolish, preposterous, silly, sottish), אויל (evil person, fool, prattler, silly, sot), חסר תבונה (indiscreet, senseless), בער (burn, ignorant, stupidity), טיפש, טפשי (anserine, dim witted, foolish, senseless, silly, thickheaded, witless), טפשון (silly little fool), טפשה, טפש (fool, goof, goofy, imbecile, nonsensical, silly, simpleton, unwise), נואל (foolish), נבער (brutish, ignorant). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ostoba (asinine, bird brained, blockish, brainless, Daffy, doltish, dry, dumb, dump, dunce, fatuous, feeble minded, goofy, hulking, idiotic, inane, inept, lack-brain, lame brain, loggerheaded, Looby, numb-skull, numskull, oafish, owlish, preposterous, puerile, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, slow, sot, thick-headed, to cut capers, tomfool, witless, wooden-headed), hülye (blithering, bozo, clot, cretin, dead above the ears, Dotty, gaga, goofy, goon, half wit, half-wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jake, jay, klutz, moonstruck, moron, moronic, mutt, mutton-head, nerd, nitwit, nurd, nutter, oafish, sap-head, schmo, shmo, silly, vacuous, wacko, wart), buta (addled, anserine, blunt, bovine, brainless, dead above the ears, dim-witted, doltish, dull, dumb, fatuous, foolish, loggerheaded, mindless, silly, simple minded, to be out of one's skull, unwise, zombie). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tumpul (blunt, dull, obtuse (of angles)), pandir (gaga, silly), mada (dull, feebleminded), goblok (dumb), gendeng (dumb, inclined, oblique), bloon (wacky), bego. (various references)

   

Italian

  

stupido (addled, asinine, blockhead, chump, clot, dumb, fool, foolish, idiot, idiotic, mindless, nitwit, numskull, oafish, silly, stupide, witless), sciocco (addled, booby, daffy, daft, doltish, featherbrain, fool, foolish, goofy, Gotham, inane, Looby, loon, ludicrous, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, sap, silly, simper, soppy, spoony), ignorante (abecedarian, addled, clodhopper, dunce, foolish, ignoramus, ignorant, ill-informed, illiterate, impolite, nescient, rude, uneducated, unillumined, uninformed, unknowable), balordo (foolish, hick, oafish, slob). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

愚かしい (foolish), 愚か (foolish). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ばかばかしい, とろい (dull, slow), にぶい (dull, slow, thickheaded), ほのか (faint, few, indistinct), どん (coveting, dull, dull-brained, slow), どんくさい (irritating, slow), (foolish, ingredients, means, silly, tool), のろくさい (irritating, slow), おろかしい (foolish), ふつつか (incompetent, inexperienced, rude), うぐ (ignorant), まのび (slow), くだらない (good-for-nothing, trivial, worthless), ぐまい, おろか (foolish), のろい (a charm, a curse, dull, slow, thickheaded). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

어리석은 (ridiculous, silly). (various references)

   

Manx

  

meehushtagh (ignoramous, ignorant, injudicious, undiscerning), jeecheeayllagh, bouyranagh (abstract, senseless), bolvaneagh (foolish, senseless, silly). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

sokete (addled, fool, foolish), chambòn (addled, fool, foolish), bubè (addled, foolish), bobo (addled, foolish). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

upidstay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

głupi (addled, foolish). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous), pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), imbecil (addled, anile, ass, barmy, dull, dunderhead, fatuous, feather brain, featherbrained, foolish, goofy, gowk, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jackass, loggerhead, moronic, nitwit, nitwitted, oaf, oafish, pumpkin-head, stupe, twerp, underwit, witless). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

stupid (doltish, dull, dull-witted, foolish, foolishly, Goosey, idiotic, idiotical, idle, inane, inept, insipid, mindless, senseless, silly, stupidly, wooden-headed), sec (bald, barren, cold, dried up, drily, dry, dull, empty, glacial, harshly, hollow, literal, useless), tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, dim, donkey, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, squarehead, sucker), redus (backward, dense, low, obtuse, reduced, scanty, small), prostesc (anile, crazy, fatuous, flim-flam, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, idle, insensate, nonsensical, silly, witless), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), netot (addle-head, blinkard, blunderhead, bone head, duffer, dunderhead, lunkhead, muddle-headed), nesãrat (flat, fresh, insipid, mawkish, unsalted), neghiob (blockhead, booby, clumsy, dolt, dullard, foolish, lubber-head, sheep, sheepish, silly, simpleton, zany), idiot (cretinous, fool, half wit, idiot, idiotic, idiotical, idiotically, lunkhead, mooncalf, mutt, nincompoop, numskull, piffling, senseless, soft, stick), cãscat (absent minded, Agape, ajar, gaping, open mouthed, yawn, yawning), ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, tipsy, wild), absurd (absurd, absurdity, absurdly, Dotty, fabulous, foolish, impossible, inept, irrational, ludicrous, mad, mindless, nonsensical, piffling, preposterous, recondite, ridiculous, silly, temerarious, unreasonable), abrutizat (brutalized, brutified). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тупой (blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, dim-witted, doltish, dug, dull, fat-witted, goofy, gormless, heavy, logy, muddle-headed, obtuse, pig-headed, po-faced, pointless, puddingy, purblind, slow witted, slow-witted, stolid, thick, timberheaded, timber-headed, wooden-headed), глумый (addled), глупый;тупой, глупый (anserine, apish, asinine, barmy, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, brain dead, brainless, cloddish, daft, dense, doddery, drippy, fatuous, fat-witted, featherbrain, featherbrained, feather-brained, foolish, gaga, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, inane, inept, mindless, mutton-headed, nitwitted, nonsensical, oafish, sappy, silly, simple-minded, soft-headed, spoony, thickskulled, thick-skulled, thick-witted, timber-headed, unwise, wooden-headed), оцепенелый. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

baoth (foolish, unwise). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nedotupavan (silly), glup (anserine, asinine, brainless, calvish, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, dumb, fat-witted, jerk, obtuse, sheepish, silly, unintelligent), blesav (fatuous). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

zote (addled, foolish), bobo (asinine, boob, booby, crazy, daft, dolt, dumbbell, dunce, fool, foolish, gawk, goof, half wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, lummox, mug, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, numbhead, oafish, sap, saphead, silly, simple simon, soft-headed, soppy, stupide, sucker, wet, yo-yo). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

don (addled, foolish). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dum (addled, bird brained, blithering, crass, daft, dense, doltish, dopey, dopy, dumb, empty headed, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, idle-headed, insensate, lumpish, nitwitted, oafish, opaque, phoney, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, rattle-pated, sappy, silly, witless). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, silly, slob, woozy), salak (country bumpkin, crazy, cretin, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dope, dopey, fool, gullible, idiot, jerky, ninny, obtuse, silly, sucker), kafasız (addle-brained, addle-pated, duffer, harebrained, headless, light in the head, soft, soft in the head, tomfool, unsophisticated, witless), beyinsiz (addle-brain, addle-headed, addle-pate, brainless, dim witted, pinhead, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattle-pated), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit), akilsiz (addled, foolish), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, twerp). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

samsyk (fool), tьnt (blunt, obtuse), tentek (silly, simpleton), keзje (obtuse, wrong), gagal (foolish), akylsyz, akmak (foolish). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

нудний (arid, barren, dead alive, depressing, heartbreaking, humdrum, insipid, irksome, long winded, matter of fact, monotonous, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, weariful, wearying, workaday), заціпенілий (cataleptic, numb), дурний (anserine, asinine, balmy, bat-minded, bovine, cloddish, cracked, daft, dense, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, gawky, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, oafish, obtuse, opaque, owlish, pigheaded, sappy, sottish, spoony, stockish, thoughtless), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ngu dại (insensate, senseless), ngu đần (beef-witted, boeotian, dense, doltish, dull, dully, mutton-headed, nitwitted, witless), người ngu đần (beetle-brain, boeotian, dolt, dullard, log-head, looby, mutton-head, nitwit), người ngớ ngẩn (duffer, jolterhead, noddy, noodle, silly), ngây ra (blankly), ngớ ngẩn ngẩn người ra, mụ đi chán, buồn ngu như lừa, đần độn (anserine, blear-eyed, blockish, boeotian, brutish, chuckle-headed, cock-eyed, doltish, fat-headed, fatuous, fat-witted, feather-brained, feather-headed, feather-pate, feather-pated, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, pigheaded, puddingy, purblind, slow-witted, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unapprehensive, witless). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

twp (dull, obtuse), pendew (thick-headed), hurtyn (blockhead, booby), hurt (hurt, stunned), dwl (dull, foolish), bal (having a white spot on the forehead). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Stupid

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

bardus. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

goffe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Stupid

Derivations

Words beginning with "stupid": stupider, stupidest, stupidities, stupidity, stupidly, stupidness, stupidnesses, stupids. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Stupid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Stoppit, studid, studpid, stuipd, stupide, stupido, stupiod, stuppy, stupy, supi, supid, tupid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Stupid"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "stupid" (pronounced stuw"pud)
4-uw" p u dCupid.
3-p u dbicuspid, intrepid, lipid, rapid, tepid, torpid, tricuspid, vapid.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Stupid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: duits, situp.

-2 letters: dips, dipt, dits, duit, dups, dust, pits, puds, puts, spit, spud, stud, suit, tips, tuis, tups.

-3 letters: dip, dis, dit, dui, dup, ids, its, pis, pit, piu, psi, pud, pus, put, sip, sit, sup, tip, tis, tui, tup, ups, uts.

-4 letters: id, is, it, pi, si, ti, up, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: dispute, disrupt, pundits, stupids.

 

+2 letters: deputies, disputed, disputer, disputes, disrupts, dumpiest, plaudits, pudgiest, stipuled, stupider, stupidly.

 

+3 letters: aptitudes, autopsied, cuspidate, deputizes, dipterous, disputant, disputers, disputing, disrepute, disrupted, disrupter, eupatrids, guidepost, multipeds, preaudits, puddliest, stupefied, stupidest, stupidity, supinated, tricuspid, upshifted, upstirred.

 

+4 letters: amplitudes, audiotapes, cupidities, despiteful, despiteous, dispiteous, disputable, disputably, disputants, disreputes, disrupters, disrupting, disruption, disruptive, duplicates, guideposts, multispeed, pantsuited, pedicurist, platitudes, plenitudes, punditries, repudiates, stipulated, stupidness, surprinted, tricuspids, tulipwoods, turpitudes, undisputed, unscripted, upstanding.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Usage Frequency
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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