Meaning

9 senses
  1. Without intelligence.

    Lacking in intelligence.

    It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!

    dumm, doof, blöd

    глу́пыйglúpyj, дурно́йdurnój, тупо́йtupój

    дурни́йdurnýj, тупи́йtupýj

    lacking intelligence

  2. 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.

  3. 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!

  4. (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!

  5. To the point of stupor.

    Neurobiology bores me stupid.

    I am not sure if he is stupid with tiredness or inebriety.

  6. To the point of stupor.

    Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.

  7. (slang)Amazing.

    That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!

  8. To the point of stupor.

    (archaic)Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.

  9. (archaic)Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.

Examples

2281 sentences
  1. Tom asked Mary some stupid questions.

    Том поставив Мері дурні запитання.

    ruТом задал Марии какие-то глупые вопросы.

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  2. Tom asked too many stupid questions.

    Том ставив забагато дурних запитань.

    ruТом задавал слишком много тупых вопросов.

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  3. Let me ask a stupid question.

    Дозволь мені поставити дурне запитання.

    ruПозволь задать глупый вопрос.

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  4. I know that you aren't stupid.

    Я знаю, що ти не ідіот.

    ruЯ знаю, что ты не глуп.

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  5. No one likes being called stupid.

    Нікому не подобається, коли його називають ідіотом.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
By meaning 1
lacking in intelligence:
Deutsch
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lacking in intelligence:

Origin

From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupeō

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.

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Forms

stupider/more stupid, stupidest/most stupid
Comparativestupider / more stupid Lesson
Superlativestupidest / most stupid Lesson

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Synonyms

134 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

32 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • stupid enough to
  • be stupid enough
  • stupid things
  • stupid enough
  • as stupid as
  • would be stupid
  • a stupid idea
  • was a stupid
  • something stupid
  • a stupid thing
  • be so stupid
  • stupid questions

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stupid — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto