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stu·pid·i·ty
(sto͞o-pĭd′ĭ-tē, styo͞o-)n. pl. stu·pid·i·ties
1. The quality or condition of being stupid.
2. A stupid act, remark, or idea.
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stupidity
(stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ)n, pl -ties
1. the quality or state of being stupid
2. a stupid act, remark, etc
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stu•pid•i•ty
(stuˈpɪd ɪ ti, styu-)n., pl. -ties.
1. the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
2. a stupid act, notion, speech, etc.
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Stupidity
See Also: ABSURDITY, DULLNESS, FOOLISHNESS, INSULTS, MIND
- Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do, another one grows back in the same place —Jonathan Kellerman
- Brains like mashed potatoes —Anon
- Dumb as a beetle —Anon
The beetle has been linked to dullness and stupidity since the sixteenth century.
- Dumb as a stick of wood —Anon
- Dumb as pure white lead —John Updike
- Had the brains of a Playboy bunny and fucked like one —Jonathan Valin
- He’d be sharper than a serpent’s tooth, if he wasn’t as dull as ditch water —Charles Dickens
A Dickensian twist on King Lear’s lament about an ungrateful child.
- He’s like the man who thinks it’s raining when you pee in his eyes —Anon
- His head was as empty as a politician’s speech —Anon
- I’m as thick as a plank —Princess Diana excusing herself from playing a game with a patient during a hospital visit, quoted, Public Radio
- (About as) intelligent as a bundle of shawls —Henry James
- Isn’t very intelligent … he’s like a hound that simply follows the scent. He crumples his nose up, looking for his fleas —Henri-Pierre Roche
- Like dogs, that meeting with nobody else, bit one another —John Ray’s Proverbs
- (He) looked as if he’d stood in line twice when the brains were being handed out —Christopher Hale
- Look stupid as a poet in search of a simile —Thomas Holcroft
- A man with a small head is like a pin without any, very apt to get into things beyond his depth —Josh Billings
- (A snail’s about as) smart as mud —CBS-TV news story about snails being grown for escargot lovers, November 5, 1986
- (That man is) so stupid it sits on him like a halo —Emlyn Williams
- (The free press in Israel has belatedly awakened to the meaning of this act, which was as) stupid as cracking the safe of your own bank —William Safire, New York Times/Op-ed, March 9, 1987
Safire’s simile refers to Israel’s recruitment of an American as a spy.
- Stupid as jugs without handles —Honoré de Balzac
- Stupid as oysters —August E. F. Von Kotzbue
- To serve an unintelligent man is like crying in the wilderness, massaging the body of a dead man, planting water-lilies on dry land, whispering in the ear of the deaf —Panchatantra
- While he was not dumber than an ox, he was not any smarter either —James Thurber
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Noun | 1. | stupidity - a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience inability - lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something dullness, obtuseness - the quality of being slow to understand backwardness, mental retardation, subnormality, slowness, retardation - lack of normal development of intellectual capacities craziness, foolishness, folly, madness - the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness" vacuousness - indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas; "the vacuousness of her face belied her feelings" intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience |
2. | stupidity - a stupid mistake |
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stupidity
noun
1. lack of intelligence, imbecility, obtuseness, simplicity, thickness, slowness, dullness, dimness, dumbness (informal), feeble-mindedness, lack of brain, denseness, brainlessness, doziness (Brit. informal), asininity, dopiness (slang), thickheadedness I stared at him, astonished by his stupidity.
2. silliness, folly, foolishness, idiocy, madness, absurdity, futility, lunacy, irresponsibility, pointlessness, inanity, rashness, impracticality, foolhardiness, senselessness, bêtise (rare), ludicrousness, puerility, fatuousness, fatuity I can't get over the stupidity of their decision.
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Translations
حَماقَه، غَباء
hlouposttupost
dumhed
heimska
stupiditate
neumnost
aptallık
stupidity
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stupid
(ˈstjuːpid) adjective1. foolish; slow at understanding. a stupid mistake; He isn't as stupid as he looks.
2. in a bewildered or dazed state. He was (feeling) stupid from lack of sleep.
ˈstupidly adverbstuˈpidity noun
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stupidity
n. estupidez.
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