Another word for stupid
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Adjective
Lacking mental and physical alertness and activity
- Dazed or lethargic, as if drugged.
- Stupid; doltish:
- Silly; foolish:
- Sluggish, lethargic, or inactive:
- Showing little interest; apathetic:
- Conducive to sluggishness or inactivity, especially in being warm and humid:
- Displaying little movement or activity; slow; inactive:
- Lacking alertness, vigor, or energy; inert or indolent.
- Slow to perform or respond to stimulation.
- Of, causing, or characterized by lethargy.
See also:Lacking in intelligence
- Dazed or lethargic, as if drugged.
- Stupid; doltish:
- Silly; foolish:
- Alternative spelling of dim-witted.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension; not thin:
- Measuring a specified number of units in this dimension:
- Heavy in form, build, or stature; thickset:
- Stupid; dull.
- Lacking quickness of perception or intellect.
- Characterized by a lack of intelligence or sensitivity:
- Not distinctly felt:
- Lacking the power of speech. Used of animals and inanimate objects.
- Incapable of using speech; mute. Used of humans.
- Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear:
- Having relatively high density.
- Crowded closely together; compact:
- Hard to penetrate; thick:
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Another word for stupid
Modifier
Foolish
- Containing or producing nuts:
- Having a flavor like that of nuts:
- Crazy; idiotic:
- Mentally deranged; crazy.
- Extremely foolish or silly.
- Mentally deranged; crazy.
- A foolish or crazy person.
- (UK) Alternative form of cockeyed.
- Mentally deranged; crazy.
- Eccentric or crazy.
- Ludicrously odd, unlikely, or inappropriate.
- Somewhat unbalanced mentally; touched.
- Having or showing little sense; foolish:
- Eccentric or irrational:
- Crazy; silly:
- The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
- Something green in color.
- The branches and leaves of plants used for decoration.
- Sound asleep.
- Unconscious.
- Without social relationships or communication; without emotional or tangible bonds to others.
- Used other than as an idiom: Without light; somewhere that is dark.
- (idiomatic) Without information.
- (poker slang) Without looking at one's hole cards, thus not knowing what they are.
- Only partly baked.
- Insufficiently thought out; ill-conceived:
- Exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense:
- Lacking the power of speech. Used of animals and inanimate objects.
- Incapable of using speech; mute. Used of humans.
- Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear:
- Broken so that fissures appear on the surface:
- Broken into small or coarse pieces:
- Having a harsh or dissonant tone:
- Silly; ridiculous:
- Having the right foot forward when riding a board such as a skateboard or snowboard:
- In a stance in which the right foot is forward:
- Not sensible; foolish.
- A grayish bird (Cuculus canorus) of Eurasia and Africa that has a characteristic two-note call and lays its eggs in the nests of birds of other species.
- Any of various other birds of the family Cuculidae.
- The call or cry of one of these birds.
- Having a reeling, lightheaded sensation; dizzy.
- Causing or capable of causing dizziness:
- Frivolous and lighthearted; flighty:
- Behaving or acting impulsively or rashly; wild.
- Given to capricious or unstable behavior.
- Characterized by irresponsible or silly behavior.
- Easily excited; skittish.
- Alternative spelling of lightheaded.
- Electromagnetic radiation that is visible, perceivable by the normal human eye as colors between red and violet, having frequencies between 400 terahertz and 790 terahertz and wavelengths between 750 nanometers and 380 nanometers.
- Electromagnetic radiation of any frequency or wavelength.
- The sensation of perceiving light; brightness:
- Foolish or silly, especially in a smug or self-satisfied way:
- Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless:
- Lacking substance or worth:
- Having or showing excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited.
- Taking insufficient care; negligent:
- Marked by or resulting from lack of forethought or thoroughness:
- Showing a lack of consideration:
- Marked by or showing lack of due forethought or care; careless:
- Inconsiderate of the feelings of others:
- Lacking thought:
- Lacking or exhibiting a lack of wisdom; foolish or imprudent:
- Being or having no beneficial use; ineffective:
- Having no purpose or reason; pointless; to no avail:
- Incapable of acting or functioning effectively; ineffectual or inept:
- Utterly stupid or silly:
- Of, relating to, or resembling an ass.
- Highly improbable or illusory:
- Not governed by or based on reason:
- Exceeding reasonable limits; immoderate:
- Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd.
- Exceeding reasonable bounds:
- Unreasonably high in cost; exorbitant:
- Lavish or imprudent in spending money:
- Not readily believable because of improbable elements therein:
- Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
- Being well beyond the bounds of good taste:
- Having no regard for morality.
- Shockingly hideous or frightful in appearance.
- Of or resembling a fabulous monster.
- Exceptionally large; enormous:
- Relating to or having diminished cognitive function, as when memory is impaired, because of old age.
- Being a disease or condition whose cause is primarily advanced age:
- At the end of an erosion cycle:
- Of, relating to, or suitable for a child or childhood:
- Marked by or indicating a lack of maturity; puerile:
- Lacking cohesion, connection, or harmony; not coherent:
- Unable to think or express one's thoughts in a clear or orderly manner:
- Lacking tolerance, breadth of view, or sympathy; petty.
- Not expedient; inadvisable:
- Immature, especially in being silly or trivial; childish.
- Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
- Characteristic of or having to do with comedy.
- Of or relating to comic strips.
- Amusing; humorous:
- Markedly unusual or abnormal; strange:
- Relating to or being a freak:
- Capricious or whimsical.
- Emotionally affected; moved:
- Somewhat demented or mentally unbalanced.
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting mild intellectual disability. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Mentally deranged.
- Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement:
- Immoderately fond; infatuated:
- Angry; resentful:
- Mentally deranged:
- Characteristic of mental derangement:
- Of, exhibiting, or afflicted with mental derangement. Not used in psychiatric diagnosis.
- Characteristic of or associated with persons who are mentally deranged:
- Intended for use by such persons:
- A person who is affected by lunacy; a mentally deranged person.
- A very foolish person.
- Affected by lunacy; mentally deranged.
- A person who is considered foolish or stupid.
- A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Lacking or showing a lack of judgment or discretion; unwise.
- Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
- Not inhabited or farmed:
- Uncivilized or barbarous.
- Based or acting on error; misled:
- Not cautious; rash.
- Not alert to danger, problems, or deception.
- Present participle of flirt.
- A flirtation.
- Not regular or predictable; erratic:
- Lacking in correct logical relation; contradictory:
- Not in agreement or harmony; incompatible:
- so senseless or unreasonable as to seem insane; crazy
- Having the qualities of a scatterbrain.
- absent-minded, forgetful, distractable.
- Marked by a lack of responsibility:
- Lacking a sense of responsibility; unreliable or untrustworthy.
- Not liable to be called to account by a higher authority.
- Having or displaying a lack or small amount of intelligence.
- Lacking discretion; injudicious:
- Contradicting or disregarding the principles of logic.
- Without logic; senseless.
- Crazy; deranged.
- Foolish; stupid.
- Frolicsome.
- Lacking intelligible meaning:
- Foolish; absurd:
- Causing or deserving laughter or derision.
- Having or exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense; foolish.
- Lacking seriousness or responsibleness; frivolous:
- Semiconscious; dazed:
- Provoking mirth or amusement; funny.
- Of or relating to comedy.
- Causing laughter or amusement:
- Making or given to making amusing jokes or witticisms:
- Appropriate as the subject of a joke; deserving of a joke. Used in negative sentences to express disapproval or to emphasize the seriousness of something:
- Alternative spelling of half-witted.
- Having a low intelligence; dim-witted
- Extremely unreasonable, incongruous, or inappropriate:
- Impossible to take seriously; silly:
- Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or meaning in human life or in the universe.
- Confused, disorganised, in disarray.
- simple past tense and past participle of muddle
- Sightless.
- Having a maximal visual acuity of the better eye, after correction by refractive lenses, of one-tenth normal vision or less (20/200 or less on the Snellen test).
- Of, relating to, or for sightless persons.
- So absurd or incongruous as to be laughable.
- Lacking intelligence or good sense; foolish.
- Having no intelligent purpose, meaning, or direction:
- Giving or showing little attention or care; heedless:
- Deserving or inspiring ridicule; absurd, preposterous, or silly.
- Lacking sense or substance:
- Not endowed with reason.
- Affected by loss of usual or normal mental clarity; incoherent, as from shock.
- Marked by a lack of accord with reason or sound judgment:
- Lacking intelligence or wit; foolish.
- Unwise or indiscreet; not prudent.
- Performed, carried out, or done without the benefit of wise counsel or careful prior deliberation.
- Measuring little from bottom to top or surface; lacking physical depth.
- Lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge:
- Marked by insufficient inhalation of air; weak:
- Lacking education or knowledge.
- Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge:
- Unaware or uninformed:
- Having few parts or features; not complicated or elaborate:
- Easy to understand, do, or carry out:
- Having or composed of only one thing, element, or part:
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting profound mental retardation. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Unintelligent; stupid.
- Lacking sense or meaning; meaningless.
- Deficient in sense; foolish or stupid.
- Unconscious, usually as a result of physical trauma.
Dull
- slow-witted
- Affected with impaired intellectual development.
- Occurring or developing later than desired or expected; delayed.
- Socially inappropriate or foolish.
- Not moving or able to move quickly; proceeding at a low speed:
- Marked by a retarded tempo:
- Taking or requiring a long time:
- Lacking quickness of perception or intellect.
- Characterized by a lack of intelligence or sensitivity:
- Not distinctly felt:
- Having relatively high density.
- Crowded closely together; compact:
- Hard to penetrate; thick:
Synonym Study
- Retarded is applied to those behind others of the same age or class because of mental deficiency a retarded pupil
- Slow suggests that the quickness to learn, but not necessarily the capacity for learning, is below average a pupil slow in most studies
- Dense suggests obtuseness, or an irritating failure to understand quickly or to react intelligently too dense to take a hint
- Dull implies a mental sluggishness that may be constitutional or may result from fatigue, disease, etc. the fever left me dull and listless
- Stupid implies a lack of intelligence or an incapacity for perceiving or learning such as might be shown by one in a mental stupor a stupid idea
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