stupid

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  1. adjective Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
  2. adjective Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
  3. adjective Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless: a stupid mistake.
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  • ‘That is what I meant when I called her stupid, my dear,’ said the professor. —  Wraiths And Changelings-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 53
  • Consider her response whenever someone calls her stupid: "The person who says 'stupid,' is stupid!" —  Anime News Network
  • A coalition of the stupid is a hard sell and President Obama had to ask. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • But some days the stupid is almost too thick to see through. —  The Moderate Voice
  • About all an outsider may say is that the surprising thing about most magical methods is not how ingeniously complex they are but how extremely stupid they are-stupid, that is, in the sense of being completely obvious once you grasp them. —  random($foo)
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin stupidus, from stupēre, to be stunned.

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  1. = French stupide = Spanish estúpido = Portuguese estupido = Italian stupido, from Latin stupidus, struck senseless, amazed, confounded, stupid, stolid, from stupere, be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless: see stupent.
 

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