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adjective

Stupid adj.

Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; said of persons. "O that men... should be so stupid grown... As to forsake the living God!" "With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood."

Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; said of things. "Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times."

Synonyms: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated.

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Etymology of 'Stupid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stupid" Quotes from Famous Books

... would like myself to be than you have); how I have admired you for the independence and unhesitating courage and individuality of your course; and how far I was from desiring that you should cease your support of me in the Weekly. You will think me very stupid—but I did not think of that as the result of my blunt answer to your question. I thought only of the means of convincing people of the real independence of the Weekly's position. You will remember that that was what we discussed. And now that I have unintentionally put you in a false and embarrassing ...

— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... boy's face!" said Plushkin to Chichikov as he pointed to Proshka. "It is stupid enough, yet, lay anything aside, and in a trice he will have stolen it. Well, my lad, what do ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... stupid, characteristic incaution; concealment was never once resorted to; everywhere expressions of the frankest were employed, and every line breathed the full measure of his lordship's treason and betrays the ...

— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini

... will endeavour to manage it better than that big stupid the Emperor of Russia, who went riding full gallop in search of a fall. There is an addle-pate for you. What a simpleton! He is nothing but a Russian corporal, occupied with a boot-heel and a gaiter button. What an idea to arrive in London on the eve of the Polish ball! Do you think I would go ...

— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo

... in the cold, when Eunice and Edna were together, however, for Edna loved to get Eunice down in some cool, shady corner, or under the rocks on the beach, to chatter or do fancy work together. Cricket thought this was dreadfully stupid, and whenever the other girls settled themselves for what Edna called a "cozy hour," she would slip off by herself, to find the boys, or go off with old Billy, with whom she had struck up such a comical friendship, for he followed her round like a big dog, and permitted all sorts ...

— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

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