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adjective

Stupid adj.

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!" "With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood."

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."

Synonyms: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated.

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Etymology of 'Stupid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stupid" Quotes from Famous Books

... ka menti!" (Thou art paddling!—thou liest!) vociferated Maximilien.... "And the fault is all thine. I cannot, all by myself, make the canoe to go in water like this! The fault is all thine: I told thee not to dive, thou stupid!" ...

— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn

... endeavoring to analyze the subtle, uncomfortable sense of mystery which those events had left behind them. Toward morning he lost all patience with himself, and taking a novel out of his bag fixed his mind deliberately upon it; and as the story was rather stupid, it had the comfortable effect ...

— What Dreams May Come • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... wanting to see you, Clay," he said in an undertone. "It's rather stupid to ask you how you found things over there. But ...

— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well, the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our ...

— A Shropshire Lad • A. E. Housman

... its story because she always had in her mind a sense of the importance of this waste and desolate city field. In her childish way she got a vague notion of some great wrong that had been done about the land so that her uncle was smelly and stupid and her aunt had to take in more roomers than she liked. That was as close to the facts as she could get then—as close, it may be said, as many people ever get.... Then they went to look at houses, a more ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

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