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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stupid \Stu"pid\, adjective [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied: cf. F. stupide.]
1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.
O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! --Milton.
With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. --Thomson.
2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.
Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times. --Swift.
Syn: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- {Stu"pid*ly}, adverb -- {Stu"pid*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stupid
adjective
1: lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity [ant: {smart}]
2: in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue" [syn: {dazed}, {stunned}, {stupefied}, {stupid(p)}]
3: without much intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers" [syn: {unintelligent}] [ant: {intelligent}]
noun: a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" [syn: {stupid person}, {dullard}, {dolt}, {pudding head}, {pudden-head}, {poor fish}, {pillock}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
179 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupid": Boeotian, absurd, addled, apish, asinine, backward, balmy, barmy, batty, beef-brained, beef-witted, beetleheaded, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blear-eyed, blear-witted, block, blockheaded, blockish, boneheaded, bootless, boring, bovine, brainless, brute, brutish, buffoonish, chuckleheaded, chumpish, clod, cloddish, cockamamie, cockeyed, cowish, crass, crazy, credulous, cretinous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dense, dim, dim-witted, dimwit, dizzy, dolt, doltish, donkey, dope, dopey, doting, dozy, dull, dull-witted, dullard, dullhead, dumb, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, duncical, duncish, empty-headed, fat, fatheaded, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, foolish, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, goosey, gowk, gross, gulled, half-assed, half-baked, half-witted, ho-hum, humdrum, idiot, idiotic, ignoramus, ill-advised, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, ineducable, inept, infatuated, insane, insipid, irrational, irresponsible, jerky, jobbernowl, klutzy, kooky, lackwit, lamebrain, laughable, lightweight, looby, loon, loony, ludicrous, lumbering, lumpish, mad, maudlin, mindless, monotonous, moron, moronic, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, nonsensical, numskulled, nutty, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinhead, prosaic, put, retarded, ridiculous, risible, sappy, scatterbrained, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleton, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, sottish, stolid, subnormal, tedious, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, thickwit, thoughtless, tiresome, torpid, unimaginative, uninspired, unintelligent, uninteresting, unteachable, vacuous, vapid, wacky, weak-minded, wet, witless, witling, wrongheaded
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