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stupid
Synonyms and Antonyms of stupid
- The instructor assured us that there are no stupid questions.
brain-dead, brainless, dense, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, fatuous, half-witted, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
foolish, idiotic, imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky, loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, wacky, zany
apt, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, fast, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart
- I can't believe we sat through the whole stupid movie!
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
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)
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
- Not liking the captain is a stupid reason to quit the team.
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, inept, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany
airheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clueless, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, feebleminded, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), mindless, moronic, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thoughtless, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, vacuous, witless
fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, unreasonable, unreasoning, unsound, weak
out to lunch
Synonym Discussion of stupid
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- stupid students just keeping the seats warm
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- stupid with drink
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- monotonous work that leaves the mind dull
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- too dense to take a hint
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- a crass, materialistic people
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- too dumb to figure out what's going on
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See words that rhyme with stupid Dictionary: Definition of stupid Spanish Central: Translation of stupid Nglish: Translation of stupid for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of stupid for Arabic speakers
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