Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or condition of being stupid.
- n. A stupid act, remark, or idea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A state of stupor or stupefaction; torpidity of feeling or of mind.
- n. The character or quality of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; inanity; crass ignorance.
- n. Synonyms See stupid.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The property of being stupid.
- n. countable An act that is stupid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
- n. rare Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
- n. a stupid mistake
Etymologies
- From Latin stupiditas. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I very rarely us the term stupidity to describe some of the comments.”
“Yeah, I'm scared of Sarah Palin, scared that her stupidity is as contagious as the H1N1 flu virus.”
“The record of your stupidity is there in the books, your own books that you never read.”
“Your stupidity is an offense to our entire species”
Think Progress » Coburn: ‘I love gridlock’ because it means ‘we’re not passing things.’
“Laughing at your stupidity is the most fun I have had all day.”
“Your stupidity is a conservative†™ s best friend.”
“In fact, she was vexed with him half the time for what she called his stupidity, and half the time tantalized by his 'studious reserve.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
“Billy blamed herself very much for what she called her stupidity in so baldly summoning Arkwright's attention to Calderwell's devotion to”
“He lost all patience with what he considered the timidity of the President, and what he called the stupidity of congress.”
“Billy blamed herself very much for what she called her stupidity in so baldly summoning Arkwright's attention to Calderwell's devotion to Alice”
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