I’m hard-pressed to think of a POSITIVE word for «stupid». How could being stupid be a good thing? (Well, it might be good for me for someone else to be stupid, so that I can defeat him in some competition or take advantage of him, but it’s not good for him.)
The closest to a postive word that I can think of is «simple». Like you might say, «Yeah, yeah, you have all these complex arguments, but I’m a simple guy, it just seems to me that …» «Simple» is sometimes used when you want to say that another person is being too clever, perhaps making something more complicated than it needs to be, or is trying to fool others by using fancy language to cover up a fallacy.
A common euphemism is «slow». As in, «We’ll be offerring tutoring sessions to help the slow students pass this class.» When I was in school it was common to talk about the smart kids as «gifted students» and the dumb kids as «slow students». I don’t know if these terms are still common.
Another euphemism was that class for less-smart kids were called «special education», and so the kids were called «special».
You could use «silly» or «cute» in some contexts.
But in general, I’d avoid looking for any word that means anything remotely like «stupid» if you’re trying to keep a conversation friendly. Maybe there’s a word in Spanish that would be perceived in a friendly way, but I don’t think there’s such a word in English. You can try to make it less offensive by using euphemisms, but it’s still an insult.
Definition: being a dunderhead
What is a dunder, and why do we use this word to insult people in a somewhat mild fashion? Alas, this is but one more unknowable in a long line of things that etymology has not yet figured out. It may come from the Dutch word for “thunder” (donder), but no one is sure about that. What we are sure about is that there are a great number of words for “stupid” or “stupid person” ending in —headed or head. A partial list includes the following: airhead, beefheaded, beetleheaded, blockhead, bonehead, bullhead, bubblehead, buffle-headed, butthead, chucklehead, deadhead, fathead, flathead, hammerhead, heavy-headed, idleheaded, ironhead, jolt-headed, jughead, knucklehead, loggerheaded, lunkhead, meathead, muddlehead, pinhead, pinheaded, ramhead, saphead, sheepheaded, sheepshead, thickhead, and wooden-headed.
Thus I pass away the time, and this lulls me on to drudge on the end of the Chapter with this Dunderheaded Master of mine, who to my knowledge is more a Madman than a Knight.
— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (anon. trans.), 1703
Definition: stupid, silly
Here we have a lovely example of a word which began its life (in our language, at least) with a figurative meaning, and only took on a literal one after more than a century of use. Anserine comes from the Latin anser, meaning «goose.» The word is indeed used on occasion to mean «resembling a goose,» but the ‘silly as a goose’ sense preceded this by a considerable length of time.
I am not of such anserin stupidity, but that I could make as ignominions at reorsion upon my adversary.
— John Menzies, Roma Mendax, 1675
Definition: a stupid, slow-witted, or obtuse person
The original meaning of blinkard was “one that blinks with or as if with weak eyes,” which soon added the pejorative meaning listed above. If you are a person who blinks often please accept our apologies for the English language, which can on occasion be needlessly cruel.
Poore foolish Blinkard, Beads-man vnto Christ,
For restitution of long lacked sight,
I maruaile what they fancie so inticte,
To be desirous of this lothsome light?
— Samuel Nicholson, Acolastus his After-witte, 1600
Definition: complete or utter ignorance
Ignoration is not just a fancified word for «ignorance,» but also refers specifically to «an act or action of ignoring.»
I haue compleyned before of the ignorance of Greik, & Latine tounges, the Ignoration whereof, no doute, hes moued vs a great part of this busines, specialie hauing to do with men that vnderstandeth not the proprietie of them.
— George Hay, The Confutation of the Abbote of Crosraguels Masse, 1563
Definition: stupid and confused, mixed up, or eccentric
The pate portion of addlepated comes from an older word for «head,» in use since Middle English, and of uncertain origin. The addle portion may be traced back to the Old English word adela, meaning “filth, filthy or foul-smelling place.” As an adjective addle first had the meaning of “foul smelling and putrid” (specifically said of an egg), and later came to mean “confused or muddled.”
Those who belong to Madam Luna, as Hawkers of Almanacks and Pamphlets, Huntsmen, Ostridge-Catchers, Falkoners, Couriers, Salt-carriers, Lunaticks, Maggotty Fools, Crackbrain’d Coxcombs, Addle|pated Frantic Wights, Giddy Whimsical Foplings, Exchange-Brokers, Post-boys, Footboys, Tennis Court-keepers-Boys, Glassmongers, Light-horse, Watermen, Mariners, Messengers, Rakers and Glea|ners, will not long stay in a place this year.
— François Rabelais, The Fifth Book of the Works of Francis Rabelis (trans. by P. M.), 1694
Definition: exhibiting or characterized by nescience: ignorant, agnostic
Nescient, science, and omniscient (“having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight”) all share a root: each comes in part from the Latin word scire, meaning “to know.” Nescience, then, is «lack of knowledge or awareness.»
True it is that he offends more hainously, that sins through knowledge, then he that slips through Ignorance: but we may not therefore flie to Ignorance for an excuse: for ’tis one thing to be [H] nescient, ano|ther to be wilfully Ignorant.
— Robert Dyer, The Christian’s Theorico-Practicon, 1633
Definition: an act of foolishness or stupidity
Bêtise came to English from the French word bête, which has the meaning in that language of «idiot,» or, more literally, «beast» (the literal meaning of bête is the one found in the term bête noire). In addition to an act of stupidity, bêtise may refer to stupidity or ignorance in general.
«I assure you,» said she «I was only tormenting you a little, and you must own you deserve that; but you can’t suppose I meant half what I said; that is a bêtise I can’t conceive you guilty of.”
— Susan Ferrier, Marriage 1818
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senseless
mental condition, foolish
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unintelligent
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ability, unintelligent
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silly
foolish, mental condition
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thick
ability, obtuse
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idiotic
foolish, unintelligent
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nonsensical
foolish, absurd
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dense
ability, unintelligent
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witless
foolish, irrational
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dopey
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slow
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simple
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meathead
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preposterous
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pointless
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Pronunciation:
[ stjˈuːpɪd], [ stjˈuːpɪd], [ s_t_j_ˈuː_p_ɪ_d]
Related words: being stupid, what is stupid, I’m stupid
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absurd (adjective)
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all (adjective)
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backward (adjective)
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balmy (adjective)
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comatose (adjective)
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crass (adjective)
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creative (adjective)
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dim (adjective)
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dull (adjective)
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empty-headed (adjective)
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expressionless (adjective)
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farcical (adjective)
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feebleminded (adjective)
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foolish (adjective)
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glassy (adjective)
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goofy (adjective)
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ignorant (adjective)
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imbecilic (adjective)
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impolitic (adjective)
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insane (adjective)
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inutile (adjective)
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limited (adjective)
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listless (adjective)
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lunatic (adjective)
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pig-headed (adjective)
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pointless (adjective)
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pokerfaced (adjective)
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preposterous (adjective)
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retarded (adjective)
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rustic (adjective)
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senseless (adjective)
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short-sighted (adjective)
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shortsighted (adjective)
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silly (adjective)
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simple (adjective)
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simple-minded (adjective)
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simpleminded (adjective)
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slow (adjective)
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stuporous (adjective)
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tactless (adjective)
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tasteless (adjective)
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thoughtless (adjective)
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torpid (adjective)
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undiplomatic (adjective)
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unintellectual (adjective)
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weariful (adjective)
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anserine (noun)
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boneheaded (noun)
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• absurd (adjective)
- farcical,
- contradictory,
- flaky,
- invalid,
- meaningless,
- outlandish,
- bizarre,
- crazy,
- inconsistent,
- ridiculous,
- inane,
- implausible,
- laughable,
- incongruous,
- campier,
- ludicrous,
- off the wall,
- jokey,
- impossible,
- self-contradictory,
- paradoxical,
- loony,
- gagged up,
- fooling around,
- campy,
- anachronistic,
- nonsensical,
- for grins,
- idiotic,
- screwy,
- illogical,
- fallacious,
- campiest,
- eccentric.
• all (adjective)
- stupid.
• asinine (adjective)
- half witted,
- Sophomoric,
- most cretinous,
- more cretinous.
• backward (adjective)
- feeble minded,
- under privileged,
- un-developed,
- most checked,
- more behind,
- sub-normal,
- most subnormal,
- more checked,
- most behind,
- subnormal,
- under-privileged,
- under-developed,
- sub normal,
- under developed,
- more subnormal,
- un developed.
• balmy (adjective)
- mentally incompetent,
- potty,
- oddest,
- pottier,
- pottiest,
- bugged out.
• banal (adjective)
- triper,
- stereo typed,
- most noplace,
- more nowhere,
- wishywashy,
- more nothing,
- everyday,
- stereo-typed,
- most cornball,
- most cornfed,
- un-imaginative,
- wishy-washy,
- wishy washy,
- more cornfed,
- most nowhere,
- most nothing,
- most zero,
- most pabulum,
- more zero,
- un-original,
- un original,
- un imaginative,
- more pabulum,
- stocker,
- more noplace,
- more cornball,
- tripest.
• blank (adjective)
- empty,
- un communicative,
- in scrutable,
- lifeless,
- most unexpressive,
- more poker-faced,
- un-communicative,
- in-scrutable,
- impassive,
- more poker faced,
- in expressive,
- non committal,
- more masklike,
- most masklike,
- un-expressive,
- more unexpressive,
- in-expressive,
- most poker faced,
- un expressive,
- most poker-faced.
• boring (adjective)
- repetitious,
- drab,
- unvaried,
- well-worn,
- characterless,
- dragger,
- Weariful.
• brainless (adjective)
- more anencephalous,
- more anencephalic,
- most anencephalic,
- most anencephalous.
• comatose (adjective)
- dead the world,
- out,
- most inconscious,
- in sensible,
- drugged,
- out to lunch,
- in conscious,
- in-conscious,
- dead world,
- dead to world,
- out lunch,
- most soporose,
- stuporous,
- in-sensible,
- somnolent,
- more inconscious,
- more soporose.
• corny (adjective)
- oldfashioned,
- old fashioned,
- warmed over,
- warmedover.
• crass (adjective)
- in-delicate,
- un-couth,
- in delicate,
- un refined,
- in-elegant,
- most lowbrow,
- oafish,
- more lowbrow,
- most blundering,
- un couth,
- in elegant,
- more bovine,
- most bovine,
- more blundering,
- un-refined.
• creative (adjective)
- original.
• dim (adjective)
- Weak-minded,
- slow on uptake.
• dull (adjective)
- sleepy,
- big yawn,
- obtuse,
- not bright,
- oft-repeated,
- boorish,
- longwinded,
- wornout,
- besotted,
- shallower,
- blunt,
- loutish,
- ponderous,
- prosy,
- dense,
- thick-witted,
- lethargic,
- sluggish,
- usual thing,
- halfbaked,
- out-of-date,
- out of date,
- uninspiring,
- benumbed,
- unintellectual,
- drowsy,
- cloddish,
- stupefied,
- run of the mill,
- repetitive,
- apathetic,
- doltish,
- indolent,
- bovine,
- soporific.
• empty-headed (adjective)
- more know nothing,
- untaught,
- un-educated,
- most know-nothing,
- uneducated,
- knownothing,
- most know nothing,
- most knownothing,
- more knownothing,
- more know-nothing,
- un-taught,
- un-schooled,
- empty headed,
- un educated,
- know nothing,
- un schooled,
- un taught.
• expressionless (adjective)
- lusterless,
- pokerfaced,
- blank,
- straight-faced,
- nobody home,
- fish-eyed.
• farcical (adjective)
- more derisory,
- more gelastic,
- funnier,
- most comic,
- most derisory,
- most gelastic.
• feebleminded (adjective)
- un-intelligent,
- soft in head,
- soft in the head,
- soft head,
- dull witted,
- most dull-witted,
- Dull-witted,
- more dull-witted,
- more dullwitted,
- most dullwitted,
- un intelligent,
- more dull witted,
- most dull witted,
- dullwitted,
- soft the head.
• foolish (adjective)
- dopey,
- meat-headed,
- dim-witted,
- nerdy,
- ignorant,
- nitwit,
- chuckle-headed,
- jackass,
- dotty,
- lame-brained,
- half-witted,
- moronic,
- cockeyed,
- bone-headed,
- crackpot,
- injudicious,
- asinine,
- tomfool,
- blithering,
- imbecilic,
- zany,
- dumb,
- dippy,
- light in the head,
- harebrained,
- kooky,
- ill-considered,
- knuckle-headed,
- loopy,
- cockamamy,
- blockheaded.
• glassy (adjective)
- referring eyes blank.
• goofy (adjective)
- ditzier,
- ditziest.
• ignorant (adjective)
- thickheaded.
• imbecilic (adjective)
- un earthlier,
- softheaded,
- un-earthlier,
- un-earthliest,
- un earthliest,
- un earthly,
- un-earthly.
• impolitic (adjective)
- ill-judged.
• inapt (adjective)
- in-apposite,
- in expert,
- un suitable,
- more inadept,
- un-suited,
- un abler,
- in-expert,
- more ill fitted,
- in aptest,
- un-facile,
- more ill adapted,
- illsuited,
- un-proficient,
- unhandiest,
- in appropriate,
- un-meeter,
- un proficient,
- un suited,
- un-suitable,
- in adept,
- un handiest,
- un-fit,
- most ill fitted,
- more unfacile,
- un-handiest,
- in-apter,
- most ill-adapted,
- most illadapted,
- illadapted,
- in-aptest,
- most ill-fitted,
- most illfitted,
- un-ablest,
- most inadept,
- un facile,
- un meeter,
- most inapposite,
- in experienced,
- un handy,
- more ill-adapted,
- most unproficient,
- un-dexterous,
- in-adept,
- in-felicitous,
- in-appropriate,
- most ill adapted,
- illfitted,
- un-abler,
- more undexterous,
- un dexterous,
- un-skilled,
- in-experienced,
- more illfitted,
- more unproficient,
- in apter,
- un skilled,
- un meet,
- more ill-fitted,
- un ablest,
- un-handy,
- most unfacile,
- un handier,
- unmeetest,
- most undexterous,
- ill adapted,
- un meetest,
- in apposite,
- unhandier,
- un-handier,
- more inapposite,
- more illadapted,
- un-meet,
- ill fitted,
- unmeeter,
- ill suited,
- in felicitous,
- Unmeet,
- un-meetest.
• insane (adjective)
- balmy.
• insipid (adjective)
- in-nocuous,
- more ho hum,
- in sipid,
- more nebbish,
- more ho-hum,
- most ho-hum,
- in-sipid,
- more hohum,
- most nebbish,
- most hohum,
- most ho hum,
- in nocuous.
• inutile (adjective)
- in utile,
- in-utile.
• irrational (adjective)
- in-coherent,
- mindless,
- more off-the-wall,
- un-reasoning,
- un-stable,
- most off-the-wall,
- more cockamamie,
- in-valid,
- more reasonless,
- more unreasoning,
- dis-connected,
- most reasonless,
- un stabler,
- dis jointed,
- un-thinking,
- more off the wall,
- most unreasoning,
- un-sound,
- un stable,
- un-stabler,
- un sounder,
- dis connected,
- un-soundest,
- un-sounder,
- un thinking,
- in valid,
- un sound,
- dis-jointed,
- un reasoning,
- most off the wall,
- un-stablest,
- un stablest,
- most cockamamie.
• limited (adjective)
- retarded.
• listless (adjective)
- uninterested,
- out it,
- most energyless,
- in-attentive,
- in animate,
- more energyless,
- in-different,
- in attentive,
- in-animate,
- insouciant,
- un-interested,
- un interested,
- laidback,
- most mopish,
- in different,
- more mopish.
• lumpish (adjective)
- lumpish.
• lunatic (adjective)
- schizoid,
- whacko,
- psyched out.
• not intelligent; irresponsible (adjective)
- dazed,
- trivial,
- gullible,
- dummy,
- stolid,
- irrelevant,
- unthinking,
- ill-advised,
- deficient,
- insensate,
- futile,
- thick,
- indiscreet,
- naive,
- witless,
- loser,
- half-baked,
- puerile,
- unintelligent,
- rash.
• numb (adjective)
- desensitized,
- narcotized,
- deadened,
- anesthetized,
- insensitive,
- numb.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- ho-hum,
- emptyheaded,
- thoughtless,
- hohum,
- banal,
- know-nothing,
- pointless,
- reasonless,
- unexpressive,
- simple,
- lunatic,
- untactful,
- around in circles,
- pigheaded,
- foolish,
- unfacile,
- on treadmill,
- empty-headed,
- ditzy,
- dim,
- madcap,
- nowhere,
- impolitic,
- senseless,
- Unconsiderate,
- glassy,
- Gelastic,
- tasteless,
- ill-fitted,
- cornball,
- expressionless,
- cliched,
- lagging,
- cockamamie,
- birdbrained,
- derisory,
- poker-faced,
- astigmatic,
- all wet,
- Soporose,
- short-sighted,
- unprogressive,
- drear,
- unproficient,
- airheaded,
- Anencephalous,
- ho hum,
- absurd,
- simpleminded,
- inadept,
- cornfed,
- useless,
- shortsighted,
- inapposite,
- gorked,
- unenjoyable,
- masklike,
- taking the cake,
- not pertinent,
- undexterous,
- full of hot air,
- feebleminded,
- undiplomatic,
- out cold,
- underachieving,
- laid back,
- goofy,
- in vicious circle,
- Imperceptive,
- vacuous,
- noplace,
- lowbrow,
- needle in haystack,
- near-sighted,
- dull as dishwater,
- out of question,
- crass,
- numbskull,
- dead to the world,
- boring,
- off-the-wall,
- clueless,
- unreasonable,
- unsagacious,
- ill-adapted,
- mentally defective,
- inapt,
- torpid,
- unreasoning,
- comatose,
- Mopish,
- vacant,
- anencephalic,
- non-committal,
- slow-moving,
- preposterous,
- sheepheaded,
- scatterbrained,
- retardo,
- untutored,
- listless,
- Unpolitic,
- referring to eyes blank,
- corny,
- tactless,
- nitwitted,
- rustic,
- Purportless,
- clownish,
- slow,
- backward,
- sappy,
- silly,
- energyless,
- Clodhopping,
- cretinous,
- non-germane,
- Unhandy,
- out of it,
- nongermane,
- Inconscious,
- brainless,
- halfwitted,
- uninteresting,
- Pig-headed,
- irrational,
- simple-minded.
• pig-headed (adjective)
- pig headed.
• pigheaded (adjective)
- un-yielding,
- in-tractable,
- most stiffnecked,
- head-strong,
- most stiff-necked,
- stiff-necked,
- more self-willed,
- un yielding,
- most stiff necked,
- more self willed,
- in tractable,
- more stiffnecked,
- self willed,
- most self willed,
- more stiff-necked,
- most selfwilled,
- in-flexible,
- self-willed,
- most self-willed,
- stiff necked,
- in flexible.
• pointless (adjective)
- in effectual,
- in effective,
- in-effectual,
- in consequential,
- re-mote,
- most purportless,
- non germane,
- in-effective,
- un availing,
- un-availing,
- un-profitable,
- most nongermane,
- needle haystack,
- un-necessary,
- un productive,
- more nongermane,
- un-productive,
- around circles,
- in-consequential,
- un profitable,
- un necessary,
- in significant,
- more purportless,
- going nowhere.
• pokerfaced (adjective)
- poker faced.
• preposterous (adjective)
- in-credible,
- out the question,
- in credible,
- un thinkable,
- taking cake,
- un-believable,
- out question,
- un believable,
- un-usual,
- un-thinkable,
- un usual,
- farout.
• retarded (adjective)
- more gorked,
- most pinhead,
- most dumbo,
- most underachieving,
- more yoyo,
- most yoyo,
- more dumdum,
- dummiest,
- more underachieving,
- slow witted,
- dummier,
- most yo yo,
- re-tardo,
- most retardo,
- most yo-yo,
- most gorked,
- re tardo,
- more pinhead,
- under achieving,
- more dumbbell,
- more yo-yo,
- most dumbbell,
- under-achieving,
- more numbskull,
- most dumdum,
- more retardo,
- most numbskull,
- more yo yo,
- more dumbo,
- slowwitted.
• rustic (adjective)
- most clodhopping,
- un gainlier,
- un cultured,
- more clodhopping,
- un gainliest,
- un sophisticated,
- most clownish,
- un gainly,
- un-mannerly,
- more clownish,
- un-cultured,
- un-gainly,
- un mannerly,
- un polished.
• senseless (adjective)
- insentient,
- callous,
- doublespeak,
- unconscious,
- aloof,
- insensible,
- swooning,
- unfeeling,
- oblivious,
- narcotic,
- without rhyme or reason,
- unmeaning,
- faint,
- unperceptive,
- dead,
- blacked out,
- trance-like.
• short-sighted (adjective)
- more near-sighted,
- most near sighted,
- more near sighted,
- most near-sighted,
- near sighted,
- short sighted.
• shortsighted (adjective)
- more unsagacious,
- head long,
- un-warier,
- un sagacious,
- nearsighted,
- more imperceptive,
- most unsagacious,
- un warier,
- most imperceptive,
- most astigmatic,
- un-wary,
- un-wariest,
- more astigmatic,
- un wariest,
- head-long,
- un wary,
- un-sagacious.
• silly (adjective)
- more sheepheaded,
- most sheepheaded,
- most nitwitted,
- more nitwitted,
- muddle headed.
• simple (adjective)
- more soft headed,
- more amateur,
- most soft headed,
- most soft-headed,
- more soft-headed,
- most amateur,
- soft headed.
• simple-minded (adjective)
- simple minded.
• simpleminded (adjective)
- most clueless,
- un-worldliest,
- more clueless,
- un-tutored,
- most untutored,
- un-complicated,
- uncomplicated,
- un tutored,
- un worldlier,
- un-studied,
- more untutored,
- un studied,
- un worldly,
- un complicated,
- un-worldly.
• slow (adjective)
- slowest,
- slow on the uptake.
• stuporous (adjective)
- stretchy,
- stretchier,
- snoozier,
- draggier,
- wimpy,
- most laggard,
- draggiest,
- draggy,
- snoozy,
- sleepyhead,
- wimpiest,
- stretchiest,
- more sleepyhead,
- snooziest,
- having spring fever,
- most sleepyhead.
• tactless (adjective)
- mis-understanding,
- un-subtlest,
- un kind,
- un perceptive,
- un considerate,
- un sympathetic,
- mis understanding,
- dis-courteous,
- un-perceptive,
- un-considerate,
- dis courteous,
- un subtle,
- un subtlest,
- un kindest,
- un subtler,
- un-subtler,
- un-civil,
- more unconsiderate,
- un-kinder,
- in sensitive,
- un civil,
- un feeling,
- un-kindest,
- more misunderstanding,
- un-subtle,
- most misunderstanding,
- un kinder,
- most unconsiderate,
- in-sensitive,
- un-kind.
• tasteless (adjective)
- low-down,
- lowdown,
- low-down-and-dirty.
• thoughtless (adjective)
- unheeding,
- Irreflective.
• torpid (adjective)
- in-active,
- most slowmoving,
- slow moving,
- slowmoving,
- most slow-moving,
- most slow moving,
- more slow-moving,
- more slow moving,
- be-numbed,
- more slowmoving,
- be numbed.
• undiplomatic (adjective)
- un-diplomatic.
• unintellectual (adjective)
- defective,
- half-wit.
• uninteresting (adjective)
- de-pressing,
- un-entertaining,
- un entertaining,
- unentertaining,
- most unenjoyable,
- un interesting,
- more unentertaining,
- un-enjoyable,
- un-interesting,
- most unentertaining,
- de pressing,
- more unenjoyable,
- un enjoyable.
• unpolitic (adjective)
- un politic,
- un-politic.
• unprogressive (adjective)
- un progressive,
- un-progressive.
• unreasonable (adjective)
- far fetched,
- quirky,
- un reasoned,
- un-reasonable,
- full hot air,
- un reasonable,
- un-reasoned.
• untactful (adjective)
- un tactful,
- un-tactful.
• unusable (adjective)
- un usable,
- un-usable.
• useless (adjective)
- no good,
- counterproductive,
- unusuable,
- nonfunctional,
- in competent,
- good for nothing,
- non-functional,
- most good for nothing,
- counter-productive,
- of no use,
- unfunctional,
- more unfunctional,
- dis-advantageous,
- un-available,
- most nonfunctional,
- Unpurposed,
- most unusuable,
- dis advantageous,
- un-functional,
- un available,
- most unpurposed,
- wastest,
- un functional,
- non functional,
- more profitless,
- scrappest,
- more unusuable,
- in operative,
- most profitless,
- more nonfunctional,
- most good-for-nothing,
- un workable,
- un-purposed,
- un-workable,
- more unpurposed,
- scrapper,
- counter productive,
- more good for nothing,
- in-competent,
- in-operative.
• vacant (adjective)
- in-curious,
- in curious,
- more daydreaming,
- most daydreaming.
• vacuous (adjective)
- more emptied,
- most airheaded,
- more airheaded,
- most emptied,
- un comprehending,
- un-comprehending.
• weariful (adjective)
- drearer,
- drearest.
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n.
• anserine (noun)
- anserine.
• boneheaded (noun)
- boneheaded.
• dolt (noun)
- clodpates,
- airheads,
- yo yo,
- yo yos,
- dumdums,
- lunkheads,
- yoyos.
• dopy (noun)
- dopy.
• fatheaded (noun)
- fatheaded.
• gaumless (noun)
- gaumless.
• gooselike (noun)
- gooselike.
• goosey (noun)
- goosey.
• goosy (noun)
- goosy.
• gormless (noun)
- gormless.
• headless (noun)
- headless.
• idiot (noun)
- muttonheads.
• loggerheaded (noun)
- loggerheaded.
• lumpen (noun)
- lumpen.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- dodo,
- idiot,
- lunkhead,
- dumdum,
- lamebrain,
- Clodpate,
- yo-yos,
- muttonhead,
- dork,
- yo-yo,
- goon,
- stupids,
- schlemiel,
- airhead,
- lamebrains,
- Dodoes,
- moron,
- dodos,
- dorks,
- YOYO.
• schlemiel (noun)
- schmuck.
-
v.
• confused (verb)
- muddled.
• Other relevant words: (verb)
- dull.
-
Other synonyms:
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•
- bonehead,
- able,
- dimwitted,
- jerk,
- fatuous,
- purblind,
- Thick-headed,
- hebetudinous,
- philistine,
- benighted,
- vapid,
- bird-brained,
- village idiot,
- dumb-ass,
- superstitious,
- Feeble-minded,
- dingbat,
- dozy,
- hipped.
-
•
- insane,
- plodding,
- childish,
- troglodyte,
- shallow,
- unimaginative,
- pinhead,
- spastic,
- vegetable,
- unreadable,
- twat,
- brain dead.
-
•
- cow,
- barren,
- dizzy,
- narrow.
-
•
- sterile.
-
•
- bugger.
-
•
- dip.
• addlebrained
- addleheaded.
• boorish
- rude.
• brainless
- Numskulled.
• giddy
- rattlebrained.
• ill-considered
- unwise.
• Other relevant words:
- provincialism.
• uninformed
- not with it.
• unwise
- inadvisable.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- dullard,
- intolerant,
- ineptly,
- Untractable,
- hare-brained,
- undergo,
- dunderhead,
- Ox-like,
- boeotian,
- nerd,
- bird brain,
- droll,
- Irksome,
- ninny,
- unteachable,
- screwball,
- attocerebral,
- erratic,
- unresponsive,
- monochromatic,
- heavy,
- ineffective,
- logy,
- tiresome,
- annoying,
- Feather-brained,
- unladylike,
- wrongheaded,
- dumfounded,
- inept,
- put,
- not difficult,
- cock-eyed,
- ask,
- clod,
- Addle-headed,
- addled,
- humble,
- dunce,
- bemused,
- balmy orbarmy,
- warped,
- inadvertent,
- inattentive,
- crudely,
- inoffensive,
- unbecoming,
- prat,
- erroneous,
- unreflecting,
- in secret,
- numskull,
- far-out,
- stand,
- fussy,
- lumbering,
- birdbrain,
- unsuitable,
- mistaken,
- incompetent,
- unfitting,
- fond,
- gaga,
- anomalous,
- tame,
- inexpertly,
- positive,
- happy,
- bald,
- pudding head,
- lump,
- sentimental,
- apish,
- loggerhead,
- fat-headed,
- blear-eyed,
- untoward,
- Rattle-headed,
- bore,
- forgetful,
- credulous,
- wearing,
- wild,
- wet,
- Addle-pated,
- half-assed,
- Self-opinioned,
- muddleheaded,
- confident,
- ill-devised,
- inelegantly,
- irritating,
- Clodpoll,
- not sensible,
- Crack-brained,
- mind-numbing,
- ill-conceived,
- askew,
- crackbrained,
- demented,
- hilarious,
- bigoted,
- schlub,
- inexperienced,
- maudlin,
- beguiled,
- blockish,
- Unphilosophical,
- deadhead,
- Borne,
- stock,
- Mentally Disabled,
- humdrum,
- illiberal,
- mad,
- deceive,
- mirthful,
- opinionated,
- indelicate,
- simpleton,
- dogmatic,
- confined,
- Dullhead,
- grotesque,
- Befooled,
- need,
- loon,
- unwitting,
- crotchety,
- fruitless,
- numbskulled,
- gauchely,
- sleeveless,
- exceptional,
- block,
- nincompoop,
- impose,
- fishy,
- unperceiving,
- oaf,
- rusty,
- raw,
- mentally ill,
- opinionative,
- footling,
- Mome,
- worthless,
- harmless,
- maladroitly,
- uninspired,
- unreflective,
- unfortunate,
- fuddled,
- dummkopf,
- lightweight,
- humorous,
- soft-witted,
- unskillful,
- inutile,
- wiggle,
- slumberous,
- gander,
- deadpan,
- clumsily,
- funny,
- extravagant,
- queer,
- Unapt,
- thick-skinned,
- amusing,
- wanting,
- entail,
- believing,
- nutty,
- poor fish,
- Beef-witted,
- narrow-minded,
- out of practice,
- hollow,
- cretin,
- Quackish,
- trustful,
- conceited,
- hoodwink,
- accept,
- play,
- Addle-brained,
- Opinionate,
- barmy,
- over-credulous,
- cheat,
- prosaic,
- unbalanced,
- take,
- nimrod,
- pudden-head,
- Stupe,
- undiscriminating,
- dolt,
- slow-witted,
- Insulse,
- Opinioned,
- tiring,
- devoid of interest,
- soft,
- wearying,
- Soft-headed,
- chumpish,
- fanatical,
- ratbag,
- green,
- reckless,
- vexing,
- want,
- aimless,
- improper,
- require,
- doting,
- Inhabile,
- dry,
- Ninnyhammer,
- inconsiderate,
- Witling,
- unqualified,
- impractical,
- weird,
- irresponsible,
- vain,
- foolheaded,
- undiscerning,
- sottish,
- somniferous,
- featherheaded,
- stick,
- thick-skulled,
- flat,
- bootless,
- block-headed,
- Opinative,
- Fatuitous,
- unrefined,
- beetleheaded,
- Looby,
- endure,
- clod-like,
- uncomprehending,
- hasty,
- Gowk,
- unseemly,
- foolhardy,
- blessed,
- wacky,
- unfit,
- giddy,
- astonished,
- allow,
- unusable,
- arid,
- dunderheaded,
- heedless,
- incompetently,
- beef-brained,
- Duncical,
- yokel-like,
- remiss,
- weak,
- roughly,
- fat,
- unsophisticated,
- confiding,
- dissipated,
- indecorous,
- mutt,
- stunned,
- unwarranted,
- crave,
- unthoughtful,
- monstrous,
- featherbrained,
- Feather-headed,
- dum-dum,
- opaque,
- nit,
- delude,
- Hardhead,
- ass,
- blind,
- Daffy,
- brute,
- dope,
- purposeless,
- bonkers,
- wearisome,
- bubbleheaded,
- far-fetched,
- Noddy,
- disqualified,
- ineducable,
- impracticable,
- wooden,
- cuckoo,
- dumbbell,
- frail,
- unconsidered,
- Chuckleheaded,
- Absent-minded,
- dimwit,
- artful,
- imprudent,
- Jading,
- myopic,
- gross,
- mortal,
- donkey,
- Cowish,
- Rattle-brained,
- have,
- ungracefully,
- pillock,
- insipid,
- Mooncalf,
- inadequate,
- comical,
- woodenhead,
- non compos mentis,
- risible,
- Chucklehead,
- frivolous,
- lackluster,
- dully,
- vexatious,
- impolite,
- muddle-headed,
- bubblehead,
- obstinate,
- ungentlemanly,
- ignoramus,
- Mean-spirited,
- ill timed,
- fathead,
- awkward,
- infatuated,
- Gulled,
- suffer,
- brutish,
- amateurish,
- cover up,
- involve,
- inactive,
- Jobbernowl,
- Prosing,
- duffer,
- Duncish,
- animal,
- awkwardly,
- careless,
- unproductive,
- pinheaded,
- helpless,
- jerky,
- tedious,
- lamebrained,
- confused,
- wooden-headed,
- betray,
- fool,
- capture,
- golem,
- inappropriate,
- lunkheaded,
- innocent,
- negligent,
- inexpedient,
- without reason,
- klutzy,
- imbecile,
- goose,
- buffoonish,
- blockhead,
- Spoony,
- dusty,
- neglectful,
- use,
- thunderstruck,
- untried,
- daft,
- nuts,
- gawkily,
- melancholic,
- Opiniative,
- ineffectual,
- dumbhead,
- side-splitting,
- stuffy,
- chowderhead,
- idle,
- monotonous,
- light-headed,
- uncalled-for,
- muzzy,
- ESN,
- abide,
- inefficient,
- unstable,
- false,
- yahoo,
- batty,
- pedestrian.
How to use «Stupid» in context?
It’s hard to believe that such a word could exist, but it does. stupid is an adjective used to describe someone or something that is not intelligent or sensible. It is often used to insult someone or something, but it is not always a negative word. In fact, sometimes it can be used to describe someone who is funny or entertaining. However, it is always best to use it in a respectful way.
Paraphrases for Stupid:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
asinine, brainless, daft, dopey, dumb, idiotic, ludicrous, moronic, nonsensical, senseless, silly, witless.
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Proper noun, singular
dumb, silly.
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Noun, singular or mass
dumb, idiotic, silly.
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Adverb
silly.
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Interjection
dumb.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
stupid-ass.
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Proper noun, singular
stupidity.
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Noun, singular or mass
stupidity.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
accursed, awful, bad, bloody, clueless, crazy, cursed, damned, dirty, dull, dummy, filthy, fucked-up, imbecile, injudicious, laughable, lousy, mad, meaningless, misguided, naive, nasty, naughty, pathetic, pointless, preposterous, sloppy, smart, stinking, stubborn, thick, unreasonable, unwise, weird, wrong, Dom, Punchy, fools, idiots, dorky, idiot, retarded, goddamn, goddamned, asshole, ass-wipe.
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Proper noun, singular
idiots, idiot.
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Noun, plural
Brains, fools, idiots.
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Noun, singular or mass
beast, dummy, imbecile, twit, idiot, asshole.
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Adverb
idiot, asshole.
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Interjection
beast, morons, idiot, balls, asshole, ldiot, ldiots.
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Verb, past tense
Gave.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
dropping, thinking, upsetting.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
absurd, ignorant.
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Interjection
imbecile, fools, idiots.
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Adjective
- dull
- dumb
- foolish
- futile
- ill-advised
- irrelevant
- laughable
- ludicrous
- naive
- senseless
- shortsighted
- simple
- trivial
- dummy
- loser
- rash
- thick
- unintelligent
- brainless
- dazed
- deficient
- dense
- dim
- doltish
- dopey
- gullible
- half-baked
- half-witted
- idiotic
- imbecilic
- inane
- indiscreet
- insensate
- meaningless
- mindless
- moronic
- nonsensical
- obtuse
- out to lunch
- pointless
- puerile
- simpleminded
- slow
- sluggish
- stolid
- stupefied
- thick-headed
- unthinking
- witless
On this page you’ll find 145 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stupid, such as: dull, dumb, foolish, futile, ill-advised, and irrelevant.
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What are other ways to say stupid?
The adjective stupid implies natural slowness or dullness of intellect, or, sometimes, a benumbed or dazed state of mind; it is also used to mean foolish or silly: He was rendered stupid by a blow; It is stupid to do such a thing. Foolish implies a lack of common sense or good judgment or, sometimes, a weakness of mind: a foolish decision; The child seems foolish. Fatuous implies being not only foolish, dull, and vacant in mind, but complacent and highly self-satisfied as well: fatuous and self-important; fatuous answers. Silly denotes extreme and conspicuous foolishness; it may also refer to pointlessness of jokes, remarks, etc.: silly and senseless behavior; a perfectly silly statement. Inane applies to silliness that is notably lacking in content, sense, or point: inane questions that leave one with no reply. Asinine originally meant like an ass; it applies to witlessly stupid conversations or conduct and suggests a lack of social grace or perception: He failed to notice the reaction to his asinine remarks.
How to use stupid in a sentence
Stupid things puns—made one myself then, though—just like me.
FRANK FAIRLEGHFRANK E. SMEDLEY
Stupid you were when you stole things out of my book—could you not guess that I might have read my own books?
CREDITORS; PARIAHAUGUST STRINDBERG
Stupid you were when you thought yourself cleverer than me, and when you thought that I could be lured into becoming a thief.
CREDITORS; PARIAHAUGUST STRINDBERG
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO STUPID
- batty
- campy
- crazy
- daffy
- dippy
- flaky
- fooling around
- foolish
- for grins
- freaky
- gagged up
- goofy
- idiotic
- illogical
- inane
- incongruous
- irrational
- jokey
- joshing
- laughable
- loony
- ludicrous
- nonsensical
- nutty
- off the wall
- preposterous
- sappy
- screwy
- silly
- stupid
- tomfool
- unreasonable
- wacky
- absurd
- cretinous
- daft
- foolish
- half-witted
- idiotic
- inane
- moronic
- silly
- sophomoric
- stupid
- arrested
- behind
- checked
- delayed
- dense
- dull
- feeble-minded
- imbecile
- late
- moronic
- sluggish
- stupid
- subnormal
- tardy
- underdeveloped
- underprivileged
- undeveloped
- absurd
- bugged out
- cracked
- crazed
- crazy
- daft
- deranged
- dotty
- foolish
- harebrained
- idiotic
- loony
- mentally incompetent
- moronic
- nuts
- nutty
- odd
- potty
- preposterous
- silly
- stupid
- wacky
- blah
- bland
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- conventional
- cornball
- cornfed
- corny
- dull as dishwater
- dumb
- everyday
- flat
- hackneyed
- ho-hum
- hokey
- humdrum
- insipid
- mundane
- noplace
- nothing
- nowhere
- old hat
- ordinary
- pabulum
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- square
- stale
- stereotyped
- stock
- stupid
- tired
- tripe
- trite
- unimaginative
- unoriginal
- vapid
- watery
- wishy-washy
- zero
- deadpan
- dull
- empty
- fruitless
- hollow
- immobile
- impassive
- inane
- inexpressive
- inscrutable
- lifeless
- masklike
- meaningless
- noncommittal
- poker-faced
- stiff
- stupid
- uncommunicative
- unexpressive
- vacant
- vacuous
- vague
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