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Stupid

adjective

Lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity.

In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock. Synonyms: dazed, stunned, stupefied. "Lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow" , "Was stupid from fatigue"

Lacking intelligence. Synonym: unintelligent.

noun

A person who is not very bright. Synonyms: dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid person.

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... who had; for at one time the East India Company intended making a settlement on the island, and sent some troops there. He said that they caught two of them; that they were not more than four feet high, excessively stupid and shy; they had no houses or huts to live in, and all that they did was to pile up some bushes to keep ...

— Masterman Ready • Captain Marryat

... not know Latin? And do you not see, you stupid enemies of the great Astronomer, that if it had been possible to compose such learned works as The History of Astronomy, and The Letters on the Atlantis, without referring to the original texts, by using translations only, you would no longer have preserved ...

— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men • Francois Arago

... Dean, tall, bony, and green As green corn in the milk, stood fast at the foot— Stood day after day, as if he'd been put A soldier on guard there did poor Bally Dean. And stupid! God made him so stupid I doubt— But I guess God who made us knows ...

— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various

... eloquence of the counsel for the defence. For the first time I entertained the idea of taking my talents to that particular market.... Then I studied the criminal in the dock.... The man was a fool—he had been incredibly, unbelievably stupid. Even the eloquence of his counsel was hardly likely to save him. I felt an immeasurable contempt for him.... Then it occurred to me that the criminal standard was a low one. It was the wastrels, the failures, the general riff-raff of civilization who drifted into crime.... Strange that ...

— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie

... "It is so stupid of him to want to marry Nealie," she said plaintively. "Because I know very well that if she says yes, then I shall have to keep house for Father, and mother the rest of you, which will certainly spell ruin to my chance of an artistic career, ...

— The Adventurous Seven - Their Hazardous Undertaking • Bessie Marchant

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