stupid

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”). See stop.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstjuː.pɪd/
• (Northern UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃtjuː.pɪd/, /st͡ʃjuː.pɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈst(j)u.pɪd/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃt͡ʃjʉː.pəd/
• Rhymes: -uːpɪd

stupid (comparative stupider or more stupid, superlative stupidest or most stupid)

1. Without intelligence.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid

   1. (of animates) Lacking in intelligence.

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

   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!

      • 2014 May 1, John Barker, Futures: A Novel‎, PM Press, page 131:

        I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.

   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.

   4. (euphemistic, by association) 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!

      • 1986 February 23, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

        Mom: Oh you stupid car! What's wrong with you now?!?
        Calvin: That's it, Mom! Go ahead and swear! We don't mind!

   • 1986 April 7, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

     Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid lima beans.

   • 2018, “The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!”, in DuckTales:

     Dewey: "It's too narrow for all three of us. Oh, bummer!"
     Huey: "Or we could just go single file."
     Dewey: "Stupid smart Huey..."

2. To the point of stupor.

   Neurobiology bores me stupid.

   1. (archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
      • 1702, Alexander Pope, Sappho, section 128:

        No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe.

   2. (archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
      • 1744, George Berkeley, Siris, §190:

        Were it not for [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass.

   3. Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
      • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 7:

        She had never seen Frank Churchill so silent and stupid. He said nothing worth hearing—looked without seeing—admired without intelligence—listened without knowing what she said.

3. (slang) Amazing.

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

• daft
• inept

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “stupid”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

stupid (comparative more stupid, superlative most stupid)

1. (slang) Extremely.

   My gear is stupid fly.

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Richard DeLongpre: Aw, we did, didn't we? I'm sorry. I'm so stupid in love with you.

   • 2013, Lady Gaga (lyrics and music), “Jewels N' Drugs”, in Artpop:

     I'm your mother, sister, your father, brother / This family is stupid attractive

stupid (countable and uncountable, plural stupids)

1. A stupid person; a fool.
   • 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Strategist”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 87:

     "You stupid!" screamed the girls, "we've got to guess the word. Now you'll have to go back and think of another."

   • 1922, Elizabeth G. Young, Homestead ranch:

     "What a stupid I am!" Harry exclaimed, as she watched the man ride away in the distance.

   • 1972, “Smoke on the Water”, performed by Deep Purple:

     Some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground.

   • 1996, Anita Rau Badamim, Tamarind Mem:

     At least those stupids got their money's worth out of this country before they burnt their lungs out.

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.

From Latin stupidus (“senseless”).

• IPA^(key): /stupiːd/, [sd̥uˈpʰiðˀ]
• Rhymes: -id

stupid

1. oafish
2. stupid (lacking in intelligence)

• stupiditet

Borrowed from French stupide, from Latin stupidus. Cognate with English stupid and Italian stupido.

• IPA^(key): /stuˈpid/
• Rhymes: -id
• Hyphenation: stu‧pid

stupid m or n (feminine singular stupidă, masculine plural stupizi, feminine and neuter plural stupide)

1. (literary) stupid

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prost

stupid

1. stupidly

• stupiditate

• stupid in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)