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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STUPID, a. [L., to be stupefied, properly to stop. See Stop.]
1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish.
O that men should be so stupid grown, as to forsake the living God.
With wild surprise, a moment stupid, motionless he stood.
2. Dull; heavy; formed without skill or genius.
Observe what loads of stupid rhymes oppress us in corrupted times.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity [ant: smart]
2: in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue" [syn: dazed, stunned, stupefied, stupid]
3: lacking intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers" [syn: unintelligent, stupid] [ant: intelligent] n
1: a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus, from stup?re to be numb, be astonished — more at type Date: 1541 1. a. slow of mind ; obtuse b. given to unintelligent decisions or acts ; acting in an unintelligent or careless manner c. lacking intelligence or reason ; brutish 2. dulled in feeling or sensation ; torpid <still stupid from the sedative> 3. marked by or resulting from unreasoned thinking or acting ; senseless <a stupid decision> 4. a. lacking interest or point <a stupid event> b. vexatious, exasperating <the stupid car won't start> • stupidly adverb • stupidness noun Synonyms: stupid, dull, dense, crass, dumb mean lacking in power to absorb ideas or impressions. stupid implies a slow-witted or dazed state of mind that may be either congenital or temporary <stupid students just keeping the seats warm> <stupid with drink>. dull suggests a slow or sluggish mind such as results from disease, depression, or shock <monotonous work that leaves the mind dull>. dense implies a thickheaded imperviousness to ideas <too dense to take a hint>. crass suggests a grossness of mind precluding discrimination or delicacy <a crass, materialistic people>. dumb applies to an exasperating obtuseness or lack of comprehension <too dumb to figure out what's going on>. II. noun Date: 1712 a stupid person

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (stupider, stupidest) adj. & n. --adj. 1 unintelligent, slow-witted, foolish (a stupid fellow). 2 typical of stupid persons (put it in a stupid place). 3 uninteresting or boring. 4 in a state of stupor or lethargy. 5 obtuse; lacking in sensibility. --n. colloq. a stupid person. Derivatives: stupidity n. (pl. -ies). stupidly adv. Etymology: F stupide or L stupidus (as STUPENDOUS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stupid Stu"pid, a. [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied: cf. F. stupide.] 1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! --Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. --Thomson. 2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things. Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times. --Swift. Syn: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- Stu"pid*ly, adv. -- Stu"pid*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stupider, stupidest) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you say that someone or something is stupid, you mean that they show a lack of good judgment or intelligence and they are not at all sensible. I'll never do anything so stupid again... I made a stupid mistake... Your father wouldn't have asked such a stupid question... = foolish ADJ • stupidly We had stupidly been looking at the wrong column of figures... ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj • stupidity (stupidities) I stared at him, astonished by his stupidity. N-VAR: usu with poss 2. You say that something is stupid to indicate that you do not like it or care about it, or that it annoys you. I wouldn't call it art. It's just stupid and tasteless... Friendship is much more important to me than a stupid old ring! = silly ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Senseless, witless, dull, simple, doltish, stolid, obtuse, foolish, sluggish, insensible, brutish, insensate, muddy, muddy-brained, muddy-headed, sottish, slow of apprehension, void of understanding, fat-witted. 2. Unentertaining, prosaic, pointless, prosy, flat, heavy, insipid, tame, vapid, bald, uninteresting, humdrum, dull, foolish, tiresome, tedious. 3. Stupefied, drowsy, torpid, heavy, comatose, lethargic, morbidly sleepy.

Moby Thesaurus

Boeotian, absurd, addled, apish, asinine, backward, balmy, barmy, batty, beef-brained, beef-witted, beetleheaded, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blear-eyed, blear-witted, block, blockheaded, blockish, boneheaded, bootless, boring, bovine, brainless, brute, brutish, buffoonish, chuckleheaded, chumpish, clod, cloddish, cockamamie, cockeyed, cowish, crass, crazy, credulous, cretinous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dense, dim, dim-witted, dimwit, dizzy, dolt, doltish, donkey, dope, dopey, doting, dozy, dull, dull-witted, dullard, dullhead, dumb, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, duncical, duncish, empty-headed, fat, fatheaded, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, foolish, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, goosey, gowk, gross, gulled, half-assed, half-baked, half-witted, ho-hum, humdrum, idiot, idiotic, ignoramus, ill-advised, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, ineducable, inept, infatuated, insane, insipid, irrational, irresponsible, jerky, jobbernowl, klutzy, kooky, lackwit, lamebrain, laughable, lightweight, looby, loon, loony, ludicrous, lumbering, lumpish, mad, maudlin, mindless, monotonous, moron, moronic, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, nonsensical, numskulled, nutty, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinhead, prosaic, put, retarded, ridiculous, risible, sappy, scatterbrained, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleton, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, sottish, stolid, subnormal, tedious, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, thickwit, thoughtless, tiresome, torpid, unimaginative, uninspired, unintelligent, uninteresting, unteachable, vacuous, vapid, wacky, weak-minded, wet, witless, witling, wrongheaded