EGAVE

stupid

About 9.98 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Without intelligence.
    It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
  2. adjective Lacking in intelligence.
    It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
  3. adjective 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!
  4. adjective Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
    The stupid rusty wire cut my thumb when I grabbed it.
  5. adjective 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!
  6. adjective To the point of stupor.
    Neurobiology bores me stupid.
  7. adjective Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
  8. adjective Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.

Similar words

half-witted imbecilic foolish loggerheaded wooden-headed thick-skulled slow-witted dullard thickheaded nitwitted

Often followed by

and to as or enough thing of things people

Word family

stupider stupidest stupidly stupidness stupidnesses stupids

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