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stupid

Pronunciation: /ˈstjuːpɪd/

The English word “stupid” has 12 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Lacking in intelligence.
  2. Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
  3. Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
  4. Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
  5. To the point of stupor.
  6. Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
  7. Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
  8. Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
  9. Amazing.

adverb

  1. Extremely.

noun

  1. A stupid person; a fool.
  2. The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness.

Etymology

From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-, *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old High German stubarōn (“to be astonished, be stunned, be blocked”). Related also to Old English stoppian (“to block, stop”).…

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