Meanings
comparative more stulty · superlative most stulty
- rareFoolish; silly, stupid.
Shal fyre ben blamed for it brende a foole naturelly by his own stulty wytte in sterynge?
c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love2 more examples
"[…] I was a Jamie too, before that, and Port Jamison is a stulty, priggy town on a planet that's the same."
2012, George R. R. Martin, Dreamsongs, volume 1, page 284Dearest, I love you. I miss you. I count the stulty moments, “creeping in their petty pace", till next I see and am with you...[…]
2020, Robin Langstaff-French, Brothers, Lift Your Voices, page 180
Origin
- Latinstultus“foolish”
- Middle Englishstulty
- Englishstulty
From Middle English stulty, probably from Latin stultus (“foolish”) + -y.
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stulty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stulty
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