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stupid, a. and n.|ˈstjuːpɪd|
[ad. L. stupid-us, f. stup-ēre to be stunned or benumbed. Cf. F. stupide (Rabelais), Sp., Pg. estúpido, It. stupido.]
A. adj.
1. Having one's faculties deadened or dulled; in a state of stupor, stupefied, stunned; esp. hyperbolically, stunned with surprise, grief, etc. Obs. exc. arch. (poet.)
Very common in Dryden.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 409 Is not your Father growne incapeable Of reasonable affayres? Is he not stupid With Age, and altring Rheumes? Can he speake? heare? Know man, from man? 1656Blount Glossogr., Stupid, dismaid, abashed, astonied, amazed, senceless. 1675Machiavelli's Prince xix. Wks. (1883) 123 These remained..stupid and astonished. 1697Dryden æneis vii. 1104 Men, Boys, and Women stupid with Surprise, Where ere she passes, fix their wond'ring Eyes. 1725Pope Odyss. xviii. 114 Down drop'd he stupid from the stunning wound. 1737in H. T. Waghorn Cricket Scores (1899) 19 The latter..receiving..so smart a blow by the ball that he was knocked down and lay stupid for a long time. 1859Tennyson Geraint & Enid 753 And Enid could not say one tender word, She felt so blunt and stupid at the heart.
†b. Belonging to or characterized by stupor or insensibility. Obs.
1607Chapman Bussy d' Ambois v. 64 Reuiue those stupid thoughts, and sit not thus, Gathering the horrors of your seruants slaughter,..Into an idle fancie. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 781 His Eyes are settled in a stupid peace. 1702Pope Sappho 128 No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe. 1818Keats Endymion i. 678 My sweet dream Fell into nothing—into stupid sleep.
†c. Of a part of the body: Paralysed. Obs.
1638A. Read Chirurg. xi. 82 Touch the stupid parts [of a paralytic person] with quick nettles.
d. Path. ? Obs.
1822–9Good Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 519 Cephalæa gravans. Stupid head-ache. Pain obtuse; with a sense of heaviness extending over the whole head.
†e. Emotionally or morally dull or insensible; apathetic, indifferent. Const. to [cf. F. stupide à].
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxii. §17 As for pleasure, wee haue likewise determined, that the minde oughte not to bee reduced to stupide, but to retayne pleasure. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii. 148 The Stoicks..patience..was..onely a stupid senselessnesse, and wretched carelessnesse. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. vi. §5 He is as stupid to these things [the beauties of nature] as the basest of Beasts. 1713Guardian (1756) I. No. 19. 86 It was a cause of great sorrow and melancholy to me..to see a crowd in the habits of the gentry of England stupid to the noblest sentiments we have. 1758S. Hayward Serm. xvii. 530 Oh stupid creatures that are not raised with the descriptions of his person! a1770Jortin Serm. (1787) II. x. 199 Vice begets the dread of punishment, unless it be constantly attended with unbelief, and with a stupid carelessness about futurity.
†2. As the characteristic of inanimate things: Destitute of sensation, consciousness, thought, or feeling. Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §98 Tangible Parts in Bodies are Stupide things; And the Spirits doe (in effect) all. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iii. 60 Yet if the Earth stand stupid and unmov'd, This needs must come to passe. 1660Boyle New. Exp. Phys.-Mech. xxxiii. 251 And as for the Care of the Publique Good of the Universe ascrib'd to dead and stupid Bodies; wee shall only demand, why [etc.]. a1664K. Philips Poems (1667) 40, In Mem. of F.P. 14 Alas! in vain, in vain on thee I rave; There is no pity in the stupid Grave. a1694Tillotson Serm. (1743) IX. 4110 The stone is stupid, and is not in the least conscious of any of those impressions, does not perceive what is done to it. a1718Prior 2nd Hymn of Callimachus 141 Euphrates..copious runs, but Muddy; And carries forward with his stupid Force Polluting Dirt. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 74 Matter is incapable of acting, passive only, and stupid. 1744Berkeley Siris §190 Were it not for this [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass. But this active element is supposed to be every where.
3. Wanting in or slow of mental perception; lacking ordinary activity of mind; slow-witted, dull.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 B iij b, For the fyrste speake ouer lyghtly and to imprudently,..and the other are all togyther stupydes, sturdy, & lytygious. 1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Stupid, blockish, without wit: dull. 1649Milton Tenure Kings 8 No man who knows ought, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were borne free. 1667― P.L. xii. 116 O that men..should be so stupid grown While yet the Patriark liv'd, who scap'd the Flood, As to forsake the living God. 1692Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 290 But I esteem the Faith of a stupid Peasant, more than all the Lessons of Socrates. 1712Addison Spect. No. 291 ⁋8 A Man, who cannot write with Wit on a proper Subject, is dull and stupid. 1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) II. xxvii. 161 ‘Why is Miss Anville so grave?’ ‘Not grave, my Lord,’ said I, ‘only stupid.’ 1819Shelley Peter Bell vii. iii, His lordship stands and racks his Stupid brains. 1829Hogg Sheph. Cal. Wks. (1865) 368/2 ‘What a stupid idiot I was!’ exclaimed Wat. 1838Lytton Alice ii. iii, How stupid in Caroline not to show it to you. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xliii, She felt the pique which every pretty woman experiences who fancies her favours disregarded, and thought Andy the stupidest lout she ever came across. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 560 Anne, who, when in good humour, was meekly stupid, and, when in bad humour, was sulkily stupid. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xxi. viii. (1872) X. 160 He knew how to listen..which no stupid man was ever capable of. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 29, I remain as stupid as ever; for still I fail to comprehend. 1879G. C. Harlan Eyesight viii. 108 Children with astigmatism often appear stupid.
absol.1692R. L'Estrange Fables xviii. 19 But Good Council is cast away, upon the Arrogant, the Self-conceited, or the stupid.
b. Of attributes, actions, ideas, etc.: Characterized by or indicating stupidity or dullness of comprehension.
1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 131 Christians willingly lay downe their neckes vnder the light yoke..not with a stupid, or hastie mad braine-sicke, or fond toying ioy. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 145, I went to that Burying-place on the Holy Friday of the Greeks..that I might see what Ground they had for this stupid Belief. 1707Patrick Disc. Prayer ii. xviii. 197 Let us not..persist in such a stupid error. 1711Steele Spect. No. 2 ⁋3 It is a stupid and barbarous Way to extend Dominion by Arms. a1770Jortin Serm. (1771) IV. ix. 184 Great reason have we to be thankful that we are not educated in such stupid and inhuman principles. 1819Shelley Peter Bell vi. xxxii, 'Twould make George Colman melancholy To have heard him, like a male Molly, Chanting those stupid staves. 1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold ii, This cursed frenzy makes me say and think the stupidest things. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 122 Our stupid passion for snugness.
†c. Of the lower animals: Irrational. Also of an individual animal, its propensities, etc.: Lacking intelligence or animation, senseless, dull. Obs.
a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 203 And trains him up with Rudiments more false, Than Nature does her stupid Animals. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 328 [The badger] is a solitary stupid animal. 1815Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 19 The birds of this genus [Bucco]..are a solitary stupid race. 1867Morris Jason viii. 64 A monstrous cage, Of iron bars, shut in the stupid rage Of those two beasts.
4. Void of interest, tiresome, boring, dull.
1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) I. xxxiii. 179 Of all the stupid places ever I see, that Howard Grove is the worst; there's never no getting nothing one wants. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. iii, ‘I am sorry, dear Ellinor, my awkwardness should occasion you so stupid an evening’, answered Madeline. 1845G. E. Jewsbury Let. to Mrs. Carlyle (1892) 161, I..was getting quite fat till within the last few days, when I caught cold on the stupid Rhine. 1854G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce xviii, For the first time in her experience of a London season, Blanche begins to think it a ‘stupid ball.’ 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley ii, We were quartered at a stupid sea-port town. 1884M. Creighton Let. 22 May, in L. Creighton Life & Lett. (1904) I. 269 If my letter is very stupid, forgive me. 1901W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. her Mother to Eliz. xviii. 89 We went once to the Empire, but it was awfully stupid, and I never want to go again.
5. Obstinate, stubborn. north. dial.
1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 357 Stupid; obstinate (the common epithet). 1829Brockett N.C. Gloss (ed. 2), Stupid, obstinate, though possessing good talents. 1866Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Lizzie Lorton xii, ‘So Miss Lizzie, my dear, divn't be stupid’—she meant obstinate—‘but let yersel be guided by them as knaws best.’ 1877Holderness Gloss., Stupid, obstinate. ‘As stupid as a mule.’ 1893J. K. Snowden Tales Yorksh. Wolds 170 Kit Harpur were main stupid ower it.
6. Comb., as stupid-looking adj.; adverbial with another adj., as stupid-honest, stupid-sure (nonce-wds.); stupid-head, a blockhead.
1838Dickens O. Twist xxxi, Think it's the same boy, *Stupid-head?
1877Tennyson Harold iii. i, Be thou not *stupid-honest, brother Gurth!
1815J. Campbell Trav. S. Africa 502 How such a *stupid looking animal [as the turtle] finds out this speck of land [Ascension island]..is truly wonderful.
1877Tennyson Harold iv. iii, The people *stupid-sure Sleep like their swine.
B. n. A stupid person. colloq.
1712Steele Spect. No. 468 ⁋6 Thou art no longer to drudge in raising the Mirth of Stupids..for thy Maintenance. 1819Metropolis I. 222 His loudest applauders were..stupids, like Sir G. W. who scarcely could speak a word of French. 1880Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve II. 17 Ain't there no place else for us to go to, eh, stupid? 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate v, You do not know what a thoughtless, heartless stupid I have been.
[A.] [4.] Add to def.: Hence used as a term of disparagement or abuse. (Further examples.)
1920E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon ii. i. 89 You think you're so much better than other folks, with your college education, where you never learned a thing, and always reading your stupid books instead of working. 1951J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye i. 8 Anyway, it was December and all, and it was cold as a witch's teat, especially on top of that stupid hill. 1977M. French Women's Room (1978) ii. 115, I sit and watch the stupid boob tube. 1986Auckland Metro Feb. 66/2 They..sit and sniff from their stupid bags of glue. |