Definition of stupid
- still stupid from the sedative
- a stupid decision
- a stupid event
- the stupid car won't start
She angrily described her boss as a stupid old man.
He had a stupid expression on his face.
I'm not stupid enough to fall for that trick.
Why are you being so stupid?
It was stupid of me to try to hide this from you.
We were stupid to wait so long before we made a decision.
I did some pretty stupid things when I was young.
Two glasses of wine are enough to make me stupid.
I was stupid with fatigue.
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arid, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying;
absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting;
amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous (or marvellous), sensational, spectacular, surprising, wonderful, wondrous;
animating, breathtaking, electrifying, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, hair-raising, inspiring, invigorating, rip-roaring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrilling;
amusing, diverting, entertaining;
alluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating;
aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritless;
blank, earthbound, gray (also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacular;
annoying, bothersome, irksome, irritating;
draining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearing;
demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting;
common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapid;
cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey);
a genius at math, but a total stupid when it came to his love life
1712
: not intelligent : having or showing a lack of ability to learn and understand things
: not sensible or logical
: not able to think normally because you are drunk, tired, etc.
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