stupidadj.adv.n.
/ˈstjuːpɪd/, /ˈstʃuːpɪd/, U.S. /ˈst(j)upəd/ A. adj.
1.
a. Of a person: slow to learn or understand; lacking intelligence or perceptiveness; acting without common sense or good judgement. In later use also as a more general term of abuse.The use in quot. ?1541 is apparently an English adjective, with a plural ending showing influence from the French original.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]
sloweOE
stuntc960
dullOE
hardOE
stuntlyc1000
sotc1050
dillc1175
dulta1225
simplea1325
heavy1340
astonedc1374
sheepishc1380
dull-witteda1387
lourd1390
steerishc1411
ass-likea1425
brainless?a1439
deafc1440
sluggishc1450
short-witted1477
obtuse1509
peakish1519
wearish1519
deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520
doileda1522
gross1526
headlessa1530
stulty1532
ass-headed1533
pot-headed1533
stupid?1541
sheep's head1542
doltish1543
dumpish1545
assish1548
blockish1548
slow-witted1548
blockheaded1549
surd1551
dull-headed1552
hammer-headed1552
skit-brained?1553
buzzardly1561
witless1562
log-headeda1566
assy1566
sottish1566
dastardly1567
stupidious1567
beetle-headed1570
calvish1570
bluntish1578
cod's-headed1578
grout-headed1578
bedaft1579
dull-pated1580
blate1581
buzzard-like1581
long-eared1582
dullard1583
woodena1586
duncical1588
leaden-headed1589
buzzard1592
dorbellical1592
dunstical1592
heavy-headeda1593
shallow-brained1592
blunt-witted1594
mossy1597
Bœotian1598
clay-brained1598
fat1598
fat-witted1598
knotty-pated1598
stupidous1598
wit-lost1599
barren1600
duncifiedc1600
lourdish1600
stockish1600
thick1600
booby1603
leaden-pated1603
partless1603
thin-headed1603
leaden-skulledc1604
blockhead1606
frost-brained1606
ram-headed1608
beef-witted1609
insulse1609
leaden-spirited1609
asininec1610
clumse1611
blockheadly1612
wattle-headed1613
flata1616
logger-headeda1616
puppy-headeda1616
shallow-patedc1616
thick-brained1619
half-headed1621
buzzard-blinda1625
beef-brained1628
toom-headed1629
thick-witted1634
woollen-witted1635
squirrel-headed1637
clod-pated1639
lean-souled1639
muddy-headed1642
leaden-witteda1645
as sad as any mallet1645
under-headed1646
fat-headed1647
half-witted1647
insipid1651
insulsate1652
soft-headed1653
thick-skulleda1657
muddish1658
non-intelligent1659
whey-brained1660
sap-headed1665
timber-headed1666
leather-headeda1668
out of (one's) tree1669
boobily1673
thoughtless1673
lourdly1674
logger1675
unintelligenta1676
Bœotic1678
chicken-brained1678
under-witted1683
loggerhead1684
dunderheaded1692
unintelligible1694
buffle-headed1697
crassicc1700
numbskulled1707
crassous1708
doddy-polled1708
haggis-headed1715
niddy-noddy1722
muzzy1723
pudding-headed1726
sumphish1728
pitcher-souleda1739
duncey1743
hebete1743
chuckheaded1756
dumb1756
duncely1757
imbecile1766
mutton-headed1768
chuckle-headed1770
jobbernowl1770
dowfarta1774
boobyish1778
wittol1780
staumrel1787
opaquec1789
stoopid1791
mud-headed1793
borné1795
muzzy-headed1798
nog-headed1800
thick-headed1801
gypit1804
duncish1805
lightweight1809
numbskull1814
tup-headed1816
chuckle-pate1820
unintellectuala1821
dense1822
ninnyish1822
dunch1825
fozy1825
potato-headed1826
beef-headed1828
donkeyish1831
blockheadish1833
pinheaded1837
squirrel-minded1837
pumpkin-headed1838
tomfoolish1838
dundering1840
chicken-headed1842
like a bump on a log1842
ninny-minded1849
numbheadeda1852
nincompoopish1852
suet-brained1852
dolly1853
mullet-headed1853
sodden1853
fiddle-headed1854
numb1854
bovine1855
logy1859
crass1861
unsmart1861
off his chump1864
wooden-headed1865
stupe1866
lean-minded1867
duffing1869
cretinous1871
doddering1871
thick-head1873
doddling1874
stupido1879
boneheaded1883
woolly-headed1883
leaden-natured1889
suet-headed1890
sam-sodden1891
dopey1896
turnip-headed1898
bonehead1903
wool-witted1905
peanut-headed1906
peanut-brained1907
dilly1909
torpid-minded1909
retardate1912
nitwitted1917
meat-headed1918
mug1922
cloth-headed1925
loopy1925
nitwit1928
lame-brained1929
dead from the neck up1930
simpy1932
nail-headed1936
square-headed1936
dingbats1937
pinhead1939
dim-witted1940
pea-brained1942
clueless1943
lobotomized1943
retarded1949
pointy-headed1950
clottish1952
like a stunned mullet1953
silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954
out to lunch1955
pin-brained1958
dozy1959
eejity1964
out of one's tiny mind1965
doofus1967
twitty1967
twittish1969
twatty1975
twattish1976
blur1977
dof1979
goofus1981
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
numpty1992
cockish1996
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Biijv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens For the fyrste speake ouer lyghtly and to imprudently,..and the other are all togyther stupydes [Fr. stupides], sturdy, & lytygious.
1592 M. Sutcliffe Answere to Libel ii. 45 The interpretations of the consistoriall faction..stand vpon the fooleries of the Geneuians & their stupide followers.
1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 8 No man who knows ought, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were borne free.
1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 290 But I esteem the Faith of a stupid Peasant, more than all the Lessons of Socrates.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 291. ¶8 A Man, who cannot write with Wit on a proper Subject, is dull and stupid.
1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xi. 106 ‘Why is Miss Anville so grave?’ ‘Not grave, my Lord,’ said I, ‘only stupid.’
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 245/1 His lordship stands and racks his Stupid brains.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. in Wks. (1865) 368/2 ‘What a stupid idiot I was!’ exclaimed Wat.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. viii. 651 He knew how to listen..which no stupid man was ever capable of.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 27 I remain as stupid as ever; for still I fail to comprehend.
1895 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 426/1 ‘It must be very pleasant to be clever,’ murmured the dull young man, and his eye wandered sadly to Margaret, who thought him even stupider than he actually was.
1905 J. Joyce Let. 28 Feb. (1966) II. 84 Jaysus! amn't I stupid to write that.
1985 Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Jan. 143/2 Take your hand off me, you stupid bastard.
2017 A. Thomas Hate u Give iv. 63 Khalil called him Chipmunk because of them, but he'd check anybody stupid enough to call his little brother fat.
b. Of an animal, species, etc.: lacking in intelligence, spirit, or liveliness. Also of animals generally, as opposed to humans: †lacking the capacity for reason; irrational (obsolete).
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the world > animals > by nature > [adjective] > irrational or dull
daftc1325
insensible?1531
roidc1540
unsensible1560
stupid1605
1605 E. Askew Brotherly Reconcilem. 94 The Oxe knoweth his owner, and the stupid Asse not onely the crib, but his masters crib.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 203 And trains him up with Rudiments more false, Than Nature does her stupid Animals.
1704 W. Wycherley Misc. Poems Pref. p. xxii All the most Thoughtless, Stupid, Brutal Animals, seem by Nature, design'd more for Preying on their Fellow-Creatures, than the Sagacious or Tractable.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 328 [The badger] is a solitary stupid animal.
1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 19 The birds of this genus [sc. Bucco]..are a solitary stupid race.
1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo iv. 62 The very small ones are known in the colonies as ‘bush babies’, and are beautiful but rather stupid pets.
2011 Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown, Pa.) 1 Mar. b4/3 The bear is a most stupid animal. And the rabbit is a coward.
c. Of words, actions, ideas, etc.: characterized by or associated with lack of intelligence, perceptiveness, common sense, or good judgement; foolish; ill-considered.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] > of actions, ideas, etc.
sloweOE
bluntc1175
simplea1425
headless1563
sottish1592
thick1600
stupid1609
incrassate1659
crass1660
simple-minded1774
bright1830
simplistic1844
noodly1870
unelectric1876
dinlo1907
clunky1965
1609 J. Donne Let. in Poems (1633) 364 And as to that life, all stickings and hesitations seeme stupid and stony, so to this [etc.].
1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart 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.
1686 S. Patrick Disc. Prayer ii. xviii. 217 Let us not..persist in such a stupid error.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant 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.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 2. ⁋3 It is a stupid and barbarous Way to extend Dominion by Arms.
a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) IV. ix. 184 Great reason have we to be thankful that we are not educated in such stupid and inhuman principles.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vi, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 245/1 'Twould make George Colman melancholy, To have heard him, like a male Molly, Chaunting those stupid staves.
1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold ii This cursed frenzy makes me say and think the stupidest things.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 122 Our stupid passion for snugness.
1904 J. Conrad Nostromo ii. iii. 126 Covered..like the stupid clowning of a harlequin by the spangles of a motley costume.
2017 J. Bennett Alex, Approximately xvii. 224 What sped the stress train up to full speed was getting those stupid messages from Alex this morning.
d. colloquial (originally U.S.). Of a thing: annoying; objectionable; useless; silly. Frequently used as an intensifier expressing exasperation or displeasure: damned, bloody.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [adjective]
leera1250
unprofitablea1398
noughtc1400
inutile1484
unutilea1500
vain1578
useless1593
unuseful1604
serviceless1608
aidless1674
unproductive1713
good-for-nothing1727
nowt1790
invaluable1803
stupid1844
dud1904
puckerooed1919
1844 New World 6 July 11/3 No! go you don't. You will throw that stupid thing into the running stream. There it won't hurt you; and upon that confounded Sun's hill you will please never set foot again.
1861 Family Herald 6 Apr. 773/1 I really believe you care more about that stupid machine than about this wonderful chance of obtaining a beautiful girl and splendid fortune all at once.
1877 Scribner's Monthly Sept. 629/2 Finally she blurted out: ‘I didn't want your stupid melon. I only wanted some fun.’
1920 E. 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.
1980 M. K. Holland & G. Tarlow Using Psychol. (ed. 2) ix. 146 Child: I hate school. It's stupid!
1995 Sunday Mail (S. Austral.) (Nexis) 8 Oct. 2 He was wearing a totally stupid hat with a fishing rod and a plastic fish protruding from it.
2017 A. Poston Geekerella ii. 96 Clumsily, on the stupid number pad, I hit save contact and type in the name, one letter at a time.
e. Of a quantity or amount: extremely or absurdly large; (esp. of a sum of money) unjustifiable, immoderate. Cf. silly adj. 10.See also stupid money n. at Compounds 4.
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1917 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 13 Jan. 568/2 There was some fuss about a trench... I had got some messages about it during the night, but had sleepily forgotten what they were—a thing they seemed to attach a stupid amount of importance to.
1923 Rep. Parl. Comm. Railways 3/1 in Proc. Parl. S. Austral. 1923 (1924) II. A 10-acre block has been sold for £3,000?—It is a stupid price. A man could not pay the interest after providing water rates.
1948 G. W. Gabriel I thee Wed ii. 81 I was angry with everyone... I drank stupid amounts.
1994 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Nov. 2 The charity world's infamous for being staffed by hard-working people who..put in a stupid number of hours and bring most of their commitment to the job.
2. † d. Dazed or stunned by surprise, a strong emotion, etc. Obsolete.Very common in Dryden.† e. Of a part of the body: that has lost physical sensation; numb. Obsolete.
a. In a state of insensibility or impaired consciousness, such as is caused by narcotic drugs, illness, intoxication, a blow, etc.; in a stupor.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adjective] > and stunned
astoned1297
mazeda1325
astonieda1375
clumseda1400
stupefact?a1425
astoundc1440
matedc1450
astonate1522
stupid1571
astounded1619
sparrow-blasteda1652
petrified1720
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stounded1756
stupefied1790
stunned1845
shent1861
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [adjective] > physically stupefied
amazedOE
astoundc1315
stonieda1340
dareda1400
dazedc1400
stupefact?a1425
adasedc1450
dolda1500
dazinga1533
dazzling1571
stupid1571
fordulled1591
entranced1594
torpid1656
damp1667
stuporous1712
rammista1838
stuporose1879
dazy1880
sent1940
like a stunned mullet1953
1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste ii. xv. f. 90v There was a fountaine, of whiche, who so dranke ones, became forthwith stupide, and insenseble, of no more felyng, or witte, then an Asse [Fr. tout hebeté de sens].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 398 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? View more context for this quotation
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xviii. 114 Down drop'd he stupid from the stunning wound.
1737 Daily Post 13 Aug. The latter..receiving..so smart a Blow by the Ball that he was knock'd down, and lay stupid for a considerable time.
1866 Med. & Surg. Reporter 22 Sept. 253/2 Occasionally, after the fits, she would lay stupid, in a heavy sleep, for half a day.
1908 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 4 Jan. 19/2 He became stupid for a few days, was also nauseated and vomited freely.
1980 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Sept. 52/3 Everything went black. The ambulance men arrived, took William by the heels, and dragged him, stupid and gory, from beneath the car.
2015 P. Gregory Taming of Queen 123 [He] is frequently dazed and stupid with drugs.
b. Characterized by stupor or insensibility. Now rare.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [adjective] > physically stupefied > of the nature of stupor
stupid1596
ecstatical1600
ecstatic1645
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. v. sig. Q5 I rew that thus thy better dayes are drowned In sad despaire, and all thy senses swowned In stupid sorow.
1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois v. 64 Reuiue those stupid thoughts, and sit not thus, Gathering the horrors of your seruants slaughter..Into an idle fancie.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 119 His Eyes are settled in a stupid peace. View more context for this quotation
1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Sapho to Phaon in tr. Ovid Epist. (ed. 8) 13 No Sigh to rise, no Tear had pow'r to flow; Fix'd in a stupid Lethargy of Woe.
1788 Pupil of Adversity I. xv. 163 Round these stood gazing in stupid admiration crouds of other old babies.
1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 35 My sweet dream Fell into nothing—into stupid sleep.
1886 J. R. Rees Pleasures of Book-worm v. 178 [He] sits in a stupid snoozy state.
1905 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 14 Sept. He would partially arouse, but the moment the porter relaxed efforts, he immediately relapsed into his stupid state again.
1956 L. L. Barrett tr. E. Veríssimo Night 135 How long did he lie there in that stupid torpor?
c. Emotionally, morally, or spiritually dull, numb, or indifferent; lacking in natural feeling, moral sense, or spiritual awareness. Often with to. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > lacking emotional sensibility
unfeelingc1000
mis-feelinga1382
stonishc1450
unpainfulc1450
obtuse1509
sprightlessa1522
insensate1553
senseless1560
soulless1568
dull-esprited1591
impassible1592
bluntie1598
impenetrable1600
stockish1600
stolidc1600
incapable1601
stupid1605
tasteless1605
unsensitive1610
unexalted1611
insensible1617
unsensible1619
languid1622
immovable1639
dead-hearted1642
sterile1642
resupine1643
unaffectionate1645
iron-bound1648
resentlessa1649
torpid1656
torpulent1657
impassive1699
unreceptive1722
hebete1743
apathetic1744
stubbed1744
gustless1766
unresponsive1768
unsusceptible1779
tideless-blooded1786
unaffectioned1788
inaccessible1796
hebetudinous1820
unimpressible1828
insensitive1834
apathetical1835
non-sensitive1836
blunt-hearted1845
irreceptive1846
unreceptant1846
unimpressionable1847
anaesthetic1860
insentient1860
hard (also tough, sharp) as nails1862
unsqueamish1893
tone-deaf1894
unget-at-able1897
facty1901
zombie1937
pegamoid1957
1605 T. Hutton Reasons for Refusal 254 Where is a feeling, and a sorrow for sin there is some place for repentance, but where the conscience is become stupid, dull, and blockish.., there is no compunction nor pricking in the heart.
1633 T. Hawkins tr. P. Matthieu Hist. S. Elizabeth 22 She would neuer looke on those, who so much regarded the beauty of the body, to deforme that of the soule; natures ready, & apt for ill, stupid to good.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 148 The Stoicks..patience..was..onely a stupid senselessnesse, and wretched carelessnesse.
1713 R. Steele in Guardian 2 Apr. 1/2 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.
a1770 J. Jortin 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.
1806 W. Tooke tr. G. J. Zollikofer Serm. Educ. II. xxxvi. 80 To be indifferent and stupid to our most important interests, and, immediately at the call of any trifling amusement to be all life, all spirits and activity... How dishonourable to man!
1858 J. G. Holland Titcomb's Lett. v. 124 You may love a man who has no adaptation to you—who is surly and stupid and unresponsive; who can give no satisfactory return of your affection.
1956 G. T. Thomson & H. Knight tr. K. Barth Church Dogmatics (1988) I. iii. 511 By being hostile to Jewish blood, the world simply proves that it is the world: blind and deaf and stupid to the ways of God, as they are visibly before it in the existence of this people.
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1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. iv. ix. 782 Too really did they present (not represent) bloudie Tragedies, of which their whole Countrey was becomne the Theatre..and the whole World Spectator, stupid with admiration, quaking with horrour of so vncouth a sight!
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 433 Men, Boys, and Women stupid with Surprise, Where e're she passes, fix their wond'ring Eyes.
1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 128/1 [Those] who had not had presence of mind enough to attempt taking down the body, were standing by, stupid with amazement and horror.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > palsy or paralysis > suffering from
lamec725
paralytica1398
palsya1500
lither1513
palsied1551
shrew-run1607
stupid1634
paralysed1763
paretic1822
palsying1834
shrew-afflicted1842
shrew-struck1850
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xiv. vi. 559 They by strait binding intercept the free passage of the animall spirits, and so deprive the part..of the sense of feeling, by making it, as it were, stupid or num [L. velut stupore ipsi inducto.].
1664 W. Drage Physical Nosonomy 181 Rondeletius saith, The best Remedy is to wash the stupid Member with Mustum, or new Wine, Tempore Vindemiarum.
3. As the characteristic of inanimate things: without sensation, consciousness, thought, or feeling. Now chiefly Philosophy.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > [adjective]
unwittyc1000
heartlessa1382
meana1387
conceitless?c1425
insensuat1508
insensate1528
insensible?1531
miskenning1533
unsensible1560
witless1562
unfraught1587
unconceiving1593
stupid1595
small-knowing1598
surd1601
ununderstanding1611
unapprehensible1613
unperceiving?1623
unapprehensive1624
inapprehending1652
incomprehensive1652
inapprehensive1653
impenetrative1684
blind1692
uncomprehensive1694
unpenetrating1701
unmeaning1704
vacant1712
gilly-gaupus1754
unacute1775
unapprehending1794
unpenetrative1795
unwitted1828
uncomprehending1838
irrecognizant1845
vacuous1848
incomprehending1881
mush-headed1884
wantwit1894
doofus1967
acerebral1968
brain-dead1972
goofus1981
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective]
unpassionatea1586
dispassionate1595
kindlessa1596
stupid1595
passionless1603
unpassioned?1605
unpassionated1611
impassionate1621
dispassioneda1631
dispassionated1647
feelinglessa1658
superior1667
unimpassioned1744
throbless1748
apathistical1797
emotionless1800
unemotioned1817
neutrologistic1824
frog-hearted1829
unimpassionate1845
disimpassioned1860
impressionless1864
unemotional1876
sentimentless1880
1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xliii. in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. C7 What tyranny is this..that nether I may speake nor thinke at all, but like a stupid stock in silence die.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §98 Tangible Parts in Bodies are Stupide things; And the Spirits doe (in effect) all.
a1694 J. Tillotson 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.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §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.
1883 B. R. Tucker tr. M. Bakunin God & State 6 The latter [sc. the vile matter of the idealists].., is indeed a stupid, inanimate, immobile thing, incapable of giving birth to the smallest product.
1970 K. Nkrumah Consciencism (new ed.) iv. 81 When a philosopher says that matter is ‘stupid’, he does not mean that it is slow-witted, but that it has no wit at all.
1992 Noûs 26 222 Suppose only God and one stupid monad existed. Then, on Leibniz's view, there would still be L2 laws of nature from which all the future states of that monad could be inferred from its present state.
4. Not interesting, exciting, or enjoyable; tiresome, boring, dull. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious
dreicha1300
alangec1330
joylessa1400
tedious1412
wearifulc1454
weary1465
laboriousa1475
tiresome?a1513
irksome1513
wearisome1530
woodena1566
irkful1570
flat1573
leaden1593
barren1600
soaked1600
unlively1608
dulla1616
irking1629
drearisome1633
drear1645
plumbous1651
fatigable1656
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1748 M. Goddard Poems 52 No stupid old Tales my Fancy shall rove.
1778 F. Burney Evelina II. ii. 35 Of all the stupid places ever I see, that Howard Grove is the worst! there's never no getting nothing one wants.
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret I. ii. 37 We were quartered at a stupid sea-port town.
1884 M. Creighton Let. 22 May in L. Creighton Life & Lett. M. Creighton (1904) I. 269 If my letter is very stupid, forgive me.
1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth xviii. 89 We went once to the Empire, but it was awfully stupid, and I never want to go again.
1941 Boston Daily Globe 31 May 13/8 It was a quiet evening, to tell the truth, rather a stupid evening. Mrs. Spate knitted idly, tossing a remark into the desultory conversation when Kennedy seemed at a loss.
5. English regional (later chiefly Lancashire) and Welsh English. Obstinate, stubborn; wilful.
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the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective]
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1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 357 Stupid, obstinate (the common epithet).
1866 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.’
1893 J. K. Snowden Tales Yorks. Wolds 170 Kit Harpur were main stupid ower it.
1904 E. Douglas in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 837/2 [Pembrokeshire] He's cliver and sharp enough, but there's stupid he is upon times. Come you and lead the mare, she's turned stupid, and no such a thing will she come through the slop.
a1919 W. B. Kendall Forness Word Bk. (Cumbria County Archives, Barrow) (transcript of MS) Stupid, obstinate; wilful.
1966 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. 15 16 Theer wur Giles doin' 'is best ter persuade 'Orris ter take a 'undered..pullets e'd getten penned up.., and theer's 'Orris, stupid as a moke [i.e. a donkey]..and 'oldin eawt fer a 'undered eawt o' t' t'tother pen.
B. adv.
1. To a degree that causes a person to lose the ability to think clearly or control his or her actions. Now chiefly in stupid drunk (cf. sense A. 2b).Now colloquial, passing into sense B. 3.
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a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover ii. i. in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. B4v/1 For heav'n sake Be not so stupid mad deare Generall.
1787 ‘Vicarius’ Sketches of Beauty i. 14 It [sc. the world] sunk, Gradually fainting; prostrate, at his feet Stripp'd lash'd and drown'd in tears, or stupid sad.
1829 M. Edgeworth Garry Owen v. in Christmas Box 50 It would be a sin..to waken him.., for he was tired out of his sense, stupid-tired.
1839 Morning Post 18 May 4/5 The possession..of the basket..was fully proved, for which the prisoner could give no better reason than she was ‘stupid drunk, and never did nothing to no one’.
1942 R. L. Haig-Brown Timber xxvi. 391 He doesn't get mad that way, not blind stupid mad like some people do.
2018 @denisedagee 29 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I wanna get drunk. Like stupid drunk.
2. In a manner that indicates a lack of intelligence or common sense; stupidly, foolishly. In later use colloquial.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adverb]
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adverb]
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?1757 Coll. Pretty Poems 49 What are the hearts of men made of; and how stupid and inconsistently do we act?
1823 National Advocate (N.Y.) 18 Oct. 2/2 Crolius behaves stupid in this business.
1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold iv. iii. 123 The people stupid-sure Sleep like their swine.
1900 Pearson's Mag. 10 188/2 You are talking stupid again; it is impossible for a fleet to come here.
1975 T. Callender It so Happen 116 When he see how stupid she getting on, he say he ain't there no more—he done with that.
2018 @dave17759518 27 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) The human race better get a grip and stop acting stupid or there won't be anything left of the earth!
3. colloquial (originally U.S., in African-American use). As an intensifier. To a great or excessive degree; extremely. Cf. stupidly adv. 6.
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1985 C. James & S. Denton Show Stoppa (is Stupid Fresh) (transcribed from song) in Hurby, Love Bug present's Super Nature Yo, this beat is stupid fresh. Aw yeah you know it, cold dissed Doug Fresh.
1992 Request Review/Comparisons of Pilot in comp.sys.handhelds (Usenet newsgroup) 20 June The HotSync feature is stupid-easy to use—put the Pilot in the cradle, push the button, and 15 seconds later your're [sic] sync'd!
2017 J. Bennett Alex, Approximately xxv. 344 He's..sweet and smart... He's a surfer, actually. Like, stupid talented.
C. n.
1. colloquial.
a. A stupid person; a fool, an idiot.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]
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1640 T. Heywood Exemplary Lives Nine Most Worthy Women 94 Nor can I scarce conjecture, which is chiefe In such, their ignorance, or misbeliefe. But had such stupids, but the least commerce With Homer, or read Ovids amorous verse..they Of force must..say In their blind errour they were much misled.
1718 Critick 19 May 197 Your ridiculous Impudence yoked with your solid Nonsence, are the only Pair that could drag a Stupid of your Size against the Steep of common Manners.
1726 D. Defoe Mere Nature Delineated 3 The Man is a Rational, or a Stupid, just as he is handled by his Teachers.
1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) I. 222 His loudest applauders were..stupids, like Sir G. W. who scarcely could speak a word of French.
1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate v You do not know what a thoughtless, heartless stupid I have been.
1902 W. M. Alexander Demonic Possession in New Test. viii. 234 With all his [sc. Satan's] versatility, he was only a poor stupid, who might be confounded or put to flight with ridiculous ease.
1991 Washington Post 28 Apr. (Mag. section) 52/1 U.S. Secretary of Education Arthur A. Tuberman..said that, in terms of basic mathematics skills, the United States has become..‘a nation of stupids’.
b. Used as a contemptuous (or sometimes affectionate) nickname or form of address.See also it's (the) ——, stupid at Phrases 2.
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the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > nickname or additional name > specific
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1790 ‘A. Pasquin’ Postscript to New Bath Guide iii. 30 Alderman Stump..with two cheeks like two codlins..resembles Old Stupid the provost of Maudlin's.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xi. 134 Where's that sleepy-headed old Chuffey got to! Now, stupid. Oh! you know your name, do you?
1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve II. 17 Ain't there no place else for us to go to, eh, stupid?
1941 P. S. Buck Today & Forever xi. 193 If ever anything happened to Big Stupid, she would take over the band. Why not?
1995 D. L. Paterson Dungeons 23 C'mon stupid. You think I'd rob someone in my own living room?
2018 @010101010101SM 24 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Hey Stupid, here's her Wikipedia entry. Even you could google it.
2.
a. With the and plural agreement. Stupid people regarded as a class.
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1679 Court of Honour 2 In his wisdom he startles the stupid of their expectation by his valour.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xviii. 19 But Good Council is cast away, upon the Arrogant, the Self-conceited, or the stupid.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver vi This project..would..rouse the stupid, and damp the pert.
1861 Sat. Rev. 23 Nov. 533 The Church..offers an easy entrance to the stupid..a brevet of gentility to those who feel their need of it.
1907 V. Bell Let. (1993) 55 One ought to go one's own way without argument or fuss and without attempting to make the stupid see one's point of view.
1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 Apr. 52/2 O'Connor's characters can be divided into the stupid, the wicked, and the insufferably pretentious.
2006 Philos. East & West 56 117 Is one to build up a society, he queries, in which only the stupid are to act, while the learned remain idle?
b. With the. That which is stupid; stupid ideas, actions, etc.
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1882 Garden 16 Sept. 248/1 For want of intellectual culture people are more likely to prefer the simple and the stupid, which they can comprehend.
1909 Living Age 11 Sept. 696/2 We..agree to waste no more time on the stupid or the obvious.
1970 J. O. Hertzler Laughter i. 14 Human beings tend to respond with laughter when they are confronted with..the irrational, the nonsensical, the stupid, or idiotic.
2013 Crikey (Nexis) 19 Sept. The treatment of Parkinson goes beyond the spiteful and vindictive into the downright stupid.
3. North American colloquial and humorous. In plural with the. Stupidity or foolishness regarded as if it were a disease or medical condition; (sudden) inability to think clearly or behave rationally or sensibly.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun]
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1948 Cosmopolitan May 135/3 What was not to be expected or foreseen was..that his [sc. a boxer's] advisory council in his corner should succumb to an attack of the stupids and hold him back.
1973 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 22 Aug. 13/1 Ever get the stupids? I mean, really pull something dumb?
1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Mar. (Arts & Bks. section) c14/4 Smack dab in the middle, an intelligent medical thriller comes down with a terminal case of the stupids.
2016 S. Bennett Finding Kyle iv. 45 I get the stupids because his abs contract as he holds his head up and his thigh muscles bulge under his jeans.
Phrases
P1. As object complement in various phrases. to drink (also eat, laugh, etc.) oneself stupid, to bore (also scare, etc.) a person stupid: to carry out the specified action thoroughly or to an excessive degree, esp. to the extent that the person involved or affected is no longer capable of thinking or acting sensibly. to knock (also beat, etc.) a person stupid: to render a person unconscious through violence; to beat someone up violently. Cf. senseless adj. 5, silly adj. 8.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the hand > with the fist > incapacitate by
to knock outa1616
to knock (also beat, etc.) a person stupid1811
to knock (formerly also hit, etc.) out of time1821
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K.O.1922
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1811 L. Hunt in Reflector 2 214 Thomson..either slept himself stupid, or bloated his wits.
1820 Examiner 15 Oct. 659/1 The grossest..Englishman, who scrapes money together, and eats and drinks himself stupid, shall affect to talk against the morals of the South.
1872 Tasmanian 27 Apr. 5/4 [The] defendant knocked me stupid..; when I came to my senses I was on my knees and..covered with blood.
1942 G. Gach In Army Now vi. 78 They explain some things over and over again, until you get bored stupid.
1975 N.Y. Times 1 Oct. (Sports section) 31/4 Frazier had won eight of the first 13 rounds when he walked into the blows that beat him stupid.
1998 T. McHale Casualty (BBC TV rehearsal script) (O.E.D. Archive) 13th Ser. Episode 2. 78 I think all kids remember their headmaster. Mine scared me stupid.
2018 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 18 Oct. 31 I remember laughing myself stupid at the comedy and now it is even funnier.
P2. it's (the) ——, stupid: used (esp. in political contexts) to identify and emphasize the fact or issue that one regards as obviously the most significant or salient in a particular situation, debate, etc.Originally and chiefly in (it's) the economy, stupid, a slogan devised by James Carville, campaign manager for Bill Clinton's successful bid for the presidency of the United States in 1992, to remind campaigners that the current economic recession was viewed as one of the issues most likely to resonate with the electorate.
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1992 CBS News Transcripts (Nexis) (1998) 3 Aug. And the economy is what Clinton and Gore will hit hardest in the weeks to come. In..the room..in which the staff meets each morning to plan strategy, there's a sign on the wall to remind them not to stray from the main issue. That sign reads: It's the economy, stupid.
1993 Atlantic Oct. 80/1 We all remember the slogan that came out of the Clinton campaign: ‘It's the economy, stupid.’ Well, when it comes to the budget, the watchword ought to be ‘It's entitlements, stupid.’
2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 4 Nov. 45/1 Why the deterioration in Big Tobacco's courtroom record? ‘It's the documents, stupid,’ quips..the Oregon plaintiffs' attorney who has scored two recent multimillion-dollar verdicts.
2011 Independent 22 Sept. 5/2 (headline) Why no flexibility? It's the markets, stupid, says George.
P3. stupid o'clock: see o'clock adv. 1c.
Compounds
C1. Forming complementary adjectives, as stupid-looking, stupid-seeming, stupid-sounding.
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1732 Applebee's Orig. Weekly-Jrnl. 18 Mar. I have seen some stupid looking Fellows, who not only have had a large Share of low cunning, but also more real Sense than many..of better Countenances.
1815 J. Campbell Trav. S. Afr. 502 How such a stupid looking animal [as the turtle] finds out this speck of land..is truly wonderful.
1848 Rambler Dec. 242/2 The poor gave a sincere, though somewhat, stupid-seeming welcome, and begged very little.
1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus i. 13 Fancy you being engaged!..and to anyone with the name of Matilda—it's such a stupid sounding sort of a name.
1921 Overland Monthly Jan. 35/2 I never saw a more stupid seeming woman..she just sat down and didn't say a word.
1957 Baltimore Afro-Amer. 30 Mar. 4/3 The frightfully boring subject of..why Mary would wear such a stupid looking hat with such a silly looking dress.
1987 Royal Soc. Arts Jrnl. 135 232 Teachers will have to be asking themselves continually, ‘What can be the sense of the funny, odd, sometimes stupid-sounding things these kids are actually saying?’
2003 P. David Stone & Anvil ii. 22 Where we ever that young and stupid-looking?
C2. Forming parasynthetic adjectives, as stupid-faced, stupid-minded, stupid-headed, etc.
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1823 Neuman & Baretti's New Dict. Spanish & Eng. Langs. (rev. ed.) I Caripándo, idiot-like, stupid-faced.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. May 275/1 Oppressed and stupid-minded Britons, here have ye been grumbling and sighing your souls away for years past, under the weight of fancied woes.
1885 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newsp. 12 Dec. 275/1 Every evening Hermann Schumacher, redfaced, stupid-tongued, came to visit her.
1909 R. Mayne Drone ii. 29 You stupid headed lump you.
1925 N. Mitchison Cloud Cuckoo Land iii. 45 The tallest of them was Damagon.., stupid-minded and quick-bodied.
1975 Iowa Rev. 6 49 You didn't suck mud in a stupid-assed war for three years just to come home and knock your brains out in a steel mill.
1995 R. J. Arobateau Lucy & Mickey viii. 69 Stupid-brained pigeons. What a magnificent gift they have! When..they hover, airborne!
2000 Sunday Express 17 Sept. 39 A stupid-haired comic whose only joke involved a ‘tickling stick’.
2012 Z. Noorbaksh in N. Maznavi & A. Mattu Love, InshAllah 81 Look at him, all stupid-faced and smiling, sitting there dipping his disgusting hands into the greasy popcorn.
C3. As the second element in compound adjectives.
a. With the sense ‘as stupid as (a) ——’, as butt-stupid, hog-stupid, etc.buck stupid, pig stupid: see the first element.
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1917 Sydney Sportsman 7 Mar. 8/4 The one is as unreasonable, illogical, unbeneficial and bed-rock stupid as the other.
1936 Bradford (Pa.) Era 9 Sept. 5/2 That any of us should be so hog-stupid as to associate Mr. Brandels with Communism..—that is our curse.
1994 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Dec. a2 If you haven't seen Gump, I don't want to spoil the ending for you, but it is about a guy who is dirt stupid.
2013 @Green_Footballs 25 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) The butt-stupid, determinedly ignorant attitude of so many right wingers toward science was one of the main breaking points for me.
b. With the sense ‘stupid as regards ——’, as life-stupid, tech-stupid, etc.
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1922 D. H. Lawrence Fantasia of Unconscious vii. 115 We are really far, far more life-stupid than the dead Greeks.
1947 Harper's Mag. Feb. 192/2 Those money-shrewd and history-stupid Carthaginians.
1994 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 18 May 13 a There are too many ‘officials’ who are book-smart but common-sense stupid!
2013 M. Zailckas Mother, Mother (2014) 317 Josephine was tech-stupid.
C4. † stupid headache Medicine Obsolete a headache characterized by dull pain and a feeling of heaviness or pressure, or of confusion.
stupid-head n. a stupid or slow-witted person; a fool, an idiot, a blockhead; frequently as a contemptuous form of address.In later use frequently in representations of children's speech.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]
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John1908
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mook1930
sparrow-brain1930
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drip1932
epsilon1932
bohunkus1933
Nimrod1933
dumbass1934
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pea-brain1938
knot-head1940
schlump1941
jarhead1942
Joe Soap1943
knuckle-head1944
nong1944
lame-brain1945
gobshite1946
rock-head1947
potato head1948
jerko1949
turkey1951
momo1953
poop-head1955
a right one1958
bam1959
nong-nong1959
dickhead1960
dumbo1960
Herbert1960
lamer1961
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dipshit1963
bamstick1965
doofus1965
dick1966
pillock1967
zipperhead1967
dipstick1968
thickie1968
poephol1969
yo-yo1970
doof1971
cockhead1972
nully1973
thicko1976
wazzock1976
motorhead1979
mouth-breather1979
no-brainer1979
jerkwad1980
woodentop1981
dickwad1983
dough ball1983
dickweed1984
bawheid1985
numpty1985
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
knob-end1989
Muppet1989
dingus1997
dicksack1999
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1792 Country Spectator 4 Dec. 79 I find so many stupid heads in every village and country-town, who cannot..be brought to..remember the reason, why their Parish-bells are rung once..in every week.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xviii. 228 Don't I tell you Pecksniff's here, stupid-head?
1902 F. Mason Ann. Horse-shoe Club 243 ‘Where's he gone..?’ shouted I... ‘Wheer's who gone?’ answered the bumpkin. ‘Why, the fox, to be sure, stupidhead!’ said I, getting impatient.
2007 T. Sniegoski Owlboy vii. 96 The little girl scowled. ‘Not only is he a big stupid-head, he's a big stupid-head who doesn't know how to share.’
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [adjective]
comatous1651
carotic1684
comatose1762
stupid headache1817
1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 356 [Cephalæa] gravans. Pain obtuse; with a sense of heaviness extending over the whole head... Stupid Head-ache.
1874 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Nov. 637/2 There is also a sensation of bewilderment, or, as some term it, a stupid headache.
1911 L. Burns Stud. Osteopathic Sci. III. xii. 249 The lesion was a left anterior malposition of the atlas. The patient complained of a dull, stupid headache.
stupid money n. colloquial an absurdly large amount of money; an unjustifiable or immoderate sum; cf. sense A. 1e and silly money n. at silly adj., n., and adv. Compounds 3.
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1980 Observer 17 Aug. 22/3 Soccer..can no longer pay its way because of the stupid money it's giving to players.
1999 H. Redknapp & D. McGovern 'Arry (new ed.) x. 142 I was never a serious gambler, and I'm still not. By that I mean I don't bet stupid money.
2009 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 29 Mar. 31 TV presenters like her earn stupid money. Their salaries look even more obscene in this current climate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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