idiotic

adjective

variants also idiotical
Definition of idioticnext
as in dumb
having or showing an inability to understand or make sensible choices He ended up making millions from an idea that many had dismissed as idiotic. I'm afraid I said some really idiotic things yesterday.

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Recent Examples of idiotic Along for the ride is his fawning, idiotic buddy Stevie (Steve Little). — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026 Covering politics today is a grim dance between the vicious and the idiotic, between repulsion and despair. — Megan McArdle, Washington Post, 10 May 2026 Think of the costs of an idiotic war that could have covered universal childcare and college tuitions. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2026 The biggest is Theroux’s overly tanned and idiotic tech billionaire Benji Barnes, who is dating Emily (Emily Blunt) after recently divorcing his cool wife Sasha Barnes (Lucy Liu) and leaving her with billions. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for idiotic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for idiotic
  1. dumb
  2. ridiculous
  3. irrational
  4. ignorant
  5. unreasonable
  6. unreasoning
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  • Perhaps in writing it, Salinger was trying to negotiate whether his remarkable survival through some of the war’s worst gauntlets could be chalked up to dumb luck, or divine intervention.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Approaching the plant, there are no telltale dumb-bell silhouettes on the horizon signaling its presence.
    — Ramy Inocencio, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of dumb
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  • In fact, a Texas jury once found that an alligator mascot infringed the beaver, so nobody should assume a judge shares their sense of the ridiculous.
    — Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Throughout the evacuation, Olya fixates on the fact that men aged 18 to 60 are barred from leaving, all the while wearing a ridiculous big fluffy hat that seems to protect her more from the societal meltdown around her than from the cold.
    — Sonya Vseliubska, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of ridiculous
Adjective
  • The policy is particularly irrational when applied to bicyclists and pedestrians.
    — Jeffrey T. Donner, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2026
  • For all the film focuses on Carlson’s irrational attempts to peg the murder on gay people, the actual gay man Tom disappears from the narrative for long periods of time.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 July 2026
Definition of irrational
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  • Only those stubbornly ignorant to the human cost of actual combat would be psyched to bring on more of it.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Every coach who loves God, loves this country and wants to protect women needs to speak out against coaches who are that ignorant.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of ignorant
Adjective
  • The standard is very low, and that is 'more probable than not' that this child may have been put in an unreasonable risk of harm.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • In such an environment, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee has argued that the S & P 500 can climb to 8,000 over the next few weeks, a level that is not too unreasonable given that the broader index was last trading around 7,750 — only 3% away.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of unreasonable
Adjective
  • But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • Roosevelt surely understood that nameless, unreasoning, unjustified fear cannot be eradicated.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 9 June 2026
Definition of unreasoning

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