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 That’s been an idiotic trope for too long — that participating in the business side of it taints you. — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026 Red-Bodied Dog Tick Has your idiotic dog wandered onto a bucolic patch of grass that hasn’t been freshly treated with toxins? — Jay Ruttenberg, New Yorker, 8 June 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for idiotic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for idiotic
  1. dumb
  2. ridiculous
  3. irrational
  4. ignorant
  5. unreasonable
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  • Then the reviews, of course, completely dismissed me as being like some old dumb blonde thing.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Basically all that's left for the dumb human to do when using the all-new Arrowmax Arrowspace S1 electric smart driver is dropping the bit in the tip and holding the driver steady – the S1 takes care of everything else.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of dumb
Adjective
  • One woman who grew up in China during Mao's Cultural Revolution is not only pushing back against her home country's reaction, but also calling out how blatantly ridiculous the situation is.
    — Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The game includes a ridiculous campaign centered around a new Korean civil war.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of ridiculous
Adjective
  • Because the entire system is rewarded by doing more, investments in prevention are financially irrational.
    — Paul Markovich, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
  • There’s nothing irrational about voters demanding more from a state where a third of the work force is unemployed and ranks highest in the World Bank inequality index.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of irrational
Adjective
  • Understandably, Penn struggles to hold these disparate points of focus together with a performance that vacillates between disarmingly dopey and almost willfully ignorant of the realities of the 2000s media landscape.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Some people in the White House treated Jackie as a cipher, ignorant of almost everything happening.
    — Laurence Leamer, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of ignorant
Adjective
  • That triggers First Amendment protection, and that means there cannot be viewpoint discrimination or unreasonable restrictions that are inconsistent with the speech activities imposed on the journalists.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Frimpong concluded that plaintiffs were likely to prove the practice violated the 4th Amendment’s protection against unreasonable seizures and the 5th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of unreasonable

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“Idiotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idiotic. Accessed 4 Nov. 2026.

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