Definition of STUPID

stupid

Meanings

Plural: stupids

Noun

  • a person who is not very bright
    • "The economy, stupid!"
  • A stupid person; a fool.
  • The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness.

Adjective

  • lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
  • lacking intelligence

Adjective Satellite

  • in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
    • "was stupid from fatigue"

Adj

  • Without intelligence.
  • Lacking in intelligence.
  • Without intelligence.
  • Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
  • Without intelligence.
  • Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
  • Without intelligence.
  • Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
  • To the point of stupor.
  • Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
  • To the point of stupor.
  • Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
  • To the point of stupor.
  • Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
  • To the point of stupor.
  • Amazing.

Adv

  • Extremely.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-, *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old High German stubarōn (“to be astonished, be stunned, be blocked”). Related also to Old English stoppian (“to block, stop”). More at stop.

Synonyms

addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, ass-brained, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, daft, dazed, dense, dented, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, dolt, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dullard, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwitted, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, inept, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pillock, poor fish, pratty, pudden-head, pudding head, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, slow, slow-witted, smooth-brained, stolid, stunned, stupe, stupefied, stupid, stupid person, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, unapprehensive, unclever, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded

Antonyms

intelligent, smart

Scrabble Score: 9

stupid is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
stupid is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stupid is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

stupid is a valid Words With Friends word