stupid
/ˈst(j)yː.pɪd/ · adj
Meaning
- Without intelligence.
- Lacking in intelligence.
- Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
- Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
- Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
- To the point of stupor.
- Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
- Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
- Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
- Amazing.
- Extremely.
- A stupid person; a fool.
- The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness.
Etymology / origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-éh₁-ye-ti Latin stup(eō) Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin stupidusder. Middle French stupideder. English stupid From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-, *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old High German stubarōn (“to be astonished, be stunned, be blocked”). Related also to Old English stoppian (“to block, stop”). More at stop.
- stoppian(Old English)→
- stubarōn(goh)→
- *(s)tew-(ine-pro)→
- *(s)tup-(ine-pro)→
- stupidus(Latin)→
- stupide(frm)→
- *(s)tewp-(ine-pro)→
- stupid (English)
- Relations: root, der, der, der, der, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- schtupid(Pennsylvania German) (bor)
- stupid(Romanian) (cog)
- stupit(Scots) (bor)
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