Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A stupid person; a fool.

    Dummkopf

    дура́кdurák, ду́раdúra

    a person who is not very bright

  2. (colloquial, uncountable)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.

Examples

2281 sentences

  1. Tom asked Mary some stupid questions.

    Том поставив Мері дурні запитання. — deniko

    ruТом задал Марии какие-то глупые вопросы. — soweli_Elepanto

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  2. Tom asked too many stupid questions.

    Том ставив забагато дурних запитань. — deniko

    ruТом задавал слишком много тупых вопросов. — Ananstasia

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  3. Let me ask a stupid question.

    Дозволь мені поставити дурне запитання. — deniko

    ruПозволь задать глупый вопрос. — sharptoothed

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  4. I know that you aren't stupid.

    Я знаю, що ти не ідіот. — deniko

    ruЯ знаю, что ты не глуп. — marafon

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  5. No one likes being called stupid.

    Нікому не подобається, коли його називають ідіотом. — deniko

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
stupid person — see also fool:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
stupid person — see also fool:

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

plural: stupids
Singularstupid
Pluralstupids

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person who is not very bright:stupid personstupedullarddoltpudding headpudden-headpoor fish

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

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
stuntstuntmanstupefystupendousstupiditystupidlystupor

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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