stupid
/ˈstupɪd/ adjective B1- Lacking in intelligence. · It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
- 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!· He made the stupid decision of standing in a half-hour queue for a hamburger, instead of calling ahead.
- Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words. · The stupid rusty wire cut my thumb when I grabbed it.· Stupid sexy Flanders!
- Usually 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!
- To the point of stupor. · Neurobiology bores me stupid.· I am not sure if he is stupid with tiredness or inebriety.
- Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
- Amazing. · That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!
- Large, exorbitant.
Comparative stupider · Superlative stupidest
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The Cobbler, under the fear of death, confessed that he had no knowledge of medicine, and was only made famous by the stupid clamors of the crowd.
Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.
The soldiers looked at Dantès with an air of stupid curiosity.
Then, commencing a loud whistling noise, he rubbed them well all over their bodies for several minutes; then, undisturbed by the noisy crowd collected round the broken carriage, Ali quietly harnessed the pacified animals to the count’s chariot, took the reins in his hands, and mounted the box, when to the utter astonishment of those who had witnessed the ungovernable spirit and maddened speed of the same horses, he was actually compelled to apply his whip in no very gentle manner before he could induce them to start; and even then all that could be obtained from the celebrated “dappled grays,” now changed into a couple of dull, sluggish, stupid brutes, was a slow, pottering pace, kept up with so much difficulty that Madame de Villefort was more than two hours returning to her residence in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
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