adjective, noun
adjective (stupider, stupidest)
HELPNOTE more stupid and most stupid are also common.
1 showing a lack of thought or good judgement
SYNFOOLISH, SILLY:
a stupid mistake / question / idea / joke * It was a pretty stupid thing to do. * I was stupid enough to believe him. * It was stupid of you to get involved.
2 (disapproving) (of a person) slow to learn or understand things; not clever or intelligent:
He'll manage-he isn't stupid. * She always makes me feel really stupid.
3 [onlybeforenoun] (spoken) used to emphasize that you are annoyed with sb/sth:
I can't get the stupid thing open! * Get your stupid feet off the chair!
stupidly adverb:
I stupidly agreed to lend him the money. * Todd stared stupidly at the screen.
noun [sing.] (informal) if you call sb stupid, you are telling them, usually in a joking way, that you think they are not being very intelligent:
Yes, stupid, it's you I'm talking to!
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for stupid is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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