English adjective: stupid | |||
| 1. | stupid lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity | ||
| Similar | anserine, blockheaded, boneheaded, cloddish, dense, dim, doltish, dopey, dopy, dull, dumb, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, foolish, gaumless, gooselike, goosey, goosy, gormless, jerky, loggerheaded, lumpen, lumpish, nitwitted, obtuse, senseless, slow, soft-witted, thick, thick-skulled, thickheaded, unthinking, weak, witless, wooden-headed, yokel-like | ||
| See also | stupid, unintelligent | ||
| Antonyms | smart | ||
| 2. | stupid in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | ||
| Samples | He had a dazed expression on his face. Lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow. Was stupid from fatigue. | ||
| Synonyms | dazed, stunned, stupefied | ||
| Similar | confused | ||
| Antonyms | clear-thinking, clearheaded | ||
| 3. | stupid lacking intelligence | ||
| Samples | A dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers. | ||
| Synonyms | unintelligent | ||
| Similar | brainless, headless | ||
| See also | retarded, stupid | ||
| Attribute | intelligence | ||
| Antonyms | intelligent | ||
English noun: stupid | |||
| 1. | stupid (person) a person who is not very bright | ||
| Samples | The economy, stupid!. | ||
| Synonyms | dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid person | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | simple, simpleton | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | berk, blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, klutz, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead | ||