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Definition: Stupid |
StupidAdjective1. 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". Noun1. 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) |
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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) |
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Synonyms: StupidSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. |
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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) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Doonesbury. Whoosh! I didn't really want you anyway, you stupid mourning cloak. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Stupid bear" by Vincze Ildi Commentary: "Stupid bear." |
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| 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. | |
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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. |
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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 |
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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" |
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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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.74% | 3,204 | 2,953 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.16% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.09% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,278 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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 | ||
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| 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), ぐ (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bardus. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | goffe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stupid": stupider, stupidest, stupidities, stupidity, stupidly, stupidness, stupidnesses, stupids. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stupid" (pronounced stuw"pud) |
| 4 | -uw" p u d | Cupid. |
| 3 | -p u d | bicuspid, intrepid, lipid, rapid, tepid, torpid, tricuspid, vapid. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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