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stupid

[stoo-pid, styoo-] / ˈstu pɪd, ˈstju- /




Usage

What are other ways to say stupid? The adjective stupid implies natural slowness or dullness of intellect, or, sometimes, a benumbed or dazed state of mind; it is also used to mean foolish or silly: He was rendered stupid by a blow; It is stupid to do such a thing. Foolish implies a lack of common sense or good judgment or, sometimes, a weakness of mind: a foolish decision; The child seems foolish. Fatuous implies being not only foolish, dull, and vacant in mind, but complacent and highly self-satisfied as well: fatuous and self-important; fatuous answers. Silly denotes extreme and conspicuous foolishness; it may also refer to pointlessness of jokes, remarks, etc.: silly and senseless behavior; a perfectly silly statement. Inane applies to silliness that is notably lacking in content, sense, or point: inane questions that leave one with no reply. Asinine originally meant like an ass; it applies to witlessly stupid conversations or conduct and suggests a lack of social grace or perception: He failed to notice the reaction to his asinine remarks.

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“You can pay some stupid broker,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

On some level, and to some people, it is all stupid and pointless.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

"I was thinking me and him had a mutual understanding, and now I feel so stupid," she raged.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Which means, in essence, we will never be able to be so stupid again.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Then Katherine complained, “That’s a stupid comparison. A nuclear explosion in Kansas City would kill all the stolen babies, too.”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

“I was a bit stupider back then,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

That’s begun to happen, though in a stupider way than we’d predicted.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2025

Other news reports more definitively declared that, yes, ChatGPT is becoming stupider.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 2, 2023

Otherwise, the whole room gets stupider and stupider.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

“I’m sorry?” he adds, which sounds even stupider.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

At the 2024 Sarajevo Film Festival, Payne shot down allegations that he’d lifted major elements of the script from Stephenson’s “Frisco,” calling the accusation “the stupidest thing in the world.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

In New York magazine, John Simon said there was “a very strong probability” that it was “the stupidest major movie ever made.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

He said: "We send Uganda money to plant trees as well, because we won that competition, who can find the stupidest use of taxpayers' money"

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Some pundits might be calling it “the most important chart in the world,” Perkins said, but in reality, it is closer to “the stupidest chart in the world.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025

Which may be the stupidest thing I’ve ever said to another human being, but it makes her laugh some more.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman


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