stupid
About 9.98 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Without intelligence.
It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
- adjective Lacking in intelligence.
It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
- 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!
- 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.
- 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!
- adjective To the point of stupor.
Neurobiology bores me stupid.
- adjective Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
- 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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