stupid

Meanings

Adjective

• Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
• To the point of stupor.
• Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
• Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
• Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
• Amazing.
• Darn, annoying.

Adverb

• Extremely.

Noun

• A stupid person; a fool.
• The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness.

Related

Similar words

• daft
• inept

Origin

• From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus ("struck senseless, amazed"), from stupeō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-, *(s)tewp-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- ("to stand, stay"). Cognate with Old High German stubarōn ("to be astonished, be stunned, be blocked"). Related also to Old English stoppian ("to block, stop"). See stop.