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
From the library
Which way?”, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
“You can draw water out of a water-well,” said the Hatter; “so I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well—eh, stupid?”
“It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!”
“Stupid things!” Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, “Silence in the court!” and the King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who was talking.
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