stupid

comparative stupider · comparative more stupid · superlative stupidest · superlative most stupid

1. Without intelligence.
   1. Lacking in intelligence.

      It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!

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      And it would be a fine proposition If I was a stupid girl But honey, I am no one's exception This I have previously learned

      2012, Taylor Swift, “Girl at Home”, in Red, performed by Taylor Swift

      I thought I could uplift everyone, but... everything's gotten so bad. God, am I stupid for even trying?

      2026 June 19, Gooseworx, “Remember” (4:21 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 9, spoken by Pomni (Lizzie Freeman)

   2. Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.

      So I have to pay first, and then wait in line? That's a stupid rule!

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      He made the stupid decision of standing in a half-hour queue for a hamburger, instead of calling ahead.

      I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.

      2014 May 1, John Barker, Futures: A Novel, PM Press, page 131

      You can kiss a hundred boys in bars Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling You can say it's just the way you are Make a new excuse, another stupid reason

      2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”performed by Chappell Roan

   3. Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.

      Stupid sexy Flanders!

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      The stupid rusty wire cut my thumb when I grabbed it.

      Marcie Linguini, who had come down with a stupid ear infection the day of Thanksgiving vacation, curled deeper into her bed.

      1982 December 11, Andrea Loewenstein, “The Joys of Community or Holiday-itis Strikes Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 12

   4. euphemisticby associationUsually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.

      I fall for every stupid trick every stupid day in this whole stupid world!

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      Mom: Oh you stupid car! What's wrong with you now?!? Calvin: That's it, Mom! Go ahead and swear! We don't mind!

      1986 February 23, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)

      Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid lima beans.

      1986 April 7, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)

      Dewey: "It's too narrow for all three of us. Oh, bummer!" Huey: "Or we could just go single file." Dewey: "Stupid smart Huey..."

      2018, “The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!”, in DuckTales

2. To the point of stupor.

   Neurobiology bores me stupid.

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   I am not sure if he is stupid with tiredness or inebriety.

   1. archaicCharacterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.

      No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe.

      1702, Alexander Pope, Sappho, section 128

   2. archaicLacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.

      Were it not for [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass.

      1744, George Berkeley, Siris, §190

   3. Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.

      She had never seen Frank Churchill so silent and stupid. He said nothing worth hearing—looked without seeing—admired without intelligence—listened without knowing what she said.

      1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 7

3. slangAmazing.

   That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!

4. slangLarge, exorbitant.

   […]we chat in the sitting room of the house in Sligo that she shares with her husband, son and daughter, but this is the home that she once thought would be repossessed. The couple bought it “for stupid money” in 2007, […].

   2026 September 26, Alex Clark, “‘We left Ireland because there wasn’t work – and we wanted to get the hell away’: Trespasses author Louise Kennedy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

comparative more stupid · superlative most stupid

1. slangExtremely.

   My gear is stupid fly.

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   Richard DeLongpre: Aw, we did, didn't we? I'm sorry. I'm so stupid in love with you.

   2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)

   I'm your mother, sister, your father, brother / This family is stupid attractive

   2013, Lady Gaga, “Jewels N' Drugs”, in Artpop

plural stupids

1. countableuncountableA stupid person; a fool.

   Some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground.

   1972, “Smoke on the Water”, performed by Deep Purple

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   "You stupid!" screamed the girls, "we've got to guess the word. Now you'll have to go back and think of another."

   1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Strategist”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 87

   "What a stupid I am!" Harry exclaimed, as she watched the man ride away in the distance.

   1922, Elizabeth G. Young, Homestead ranch

   At least those stupids got their money's worth out of this country before they burnt their lungs out.

   1996, Anita Rau Badamim, Tamarind Mem

2. colloquialuncountableThe condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness.

   His stupid knows no bounds.

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   As long as our staff keeps giving us the stupid, we'll never get our work done.