Sekirov Dictionary

stupid

UK /ˈstjuːpɪd/US /ˈstupɪd/

adjective 10
noun 2
adverb 1
forms 5
phrases 1

adjective10

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not clever, and not able to think or learn well
- It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
Without intelligence.
•
Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
- So I have to pay first, and then wait in line? That's a stupid rule!
- He made the stupid decision of standing in a half-hour queue for a hamburger, instead of calling ahead.
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(informal) Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
- The stupid rusty wire cut my thumb when I grabbed it.
- Stupid sexy Flanders!
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(informal, euphemistic) Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
- I fall for every stupid trick every stupid day in this whole stupid world!
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To the point of stupor.
- Neurobiology bores me stupid.
- I am not sure if he is stupid with tiredness or inebriety.
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(slang) Amazing.
- That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!
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Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
- She had never seen Frank Churchill so silent and stupid. He said nothing worth hearing—looked without seeing—admired without intelligence—listened without knowing what she said. — 1815
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(no longer used) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
- Were it not for [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass. — 1744
•
(no longer used) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
- No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe. — 1702

noun2

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A stupid person; a fool.
- "You stupid!" screamed the girls, "we've got to guess the word. Now you'll have to go back and think of another." — 1910
•
(informal) The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness.
- His stupid knows no bounds.
- As long as our staff keeps giving us the stupid, we'll never get our work done.

adverb1

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(slang) Extremely.
- My gear is stupid fly.

forms

stupids · more stupid · stupider · most stupid · stupidest

Phrases with stupid

hit with the stupid stick
Used to describe someone who is stupid or unintelligent.

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