English > stupid: 4 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity. |
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| Narrower | anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky | Having or revealing stupidity |
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| asinine, fatuous, inane | Extremely silly or stupid |
| blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed | (used informally) stupid |
| cloddish, doltish | Heavy and dull and stupid |
| dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow | Slow to learn or understand |
| gaumless, gormless | (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality |
| lumpish, lumpen, unthinking | mentally sluggish |
| nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless | (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment |
| weak | Deficient in intelligence or mental power |
| yokel-like | stupid and ignorant like proverbial rural inhabitants |
| See also | unintelligent, stupid | lacking intelligence |
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| Opposite | smart | showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness |
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| Spanish | cretino, estúpido, idiota, imbécil, tonto |
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| Catalan | cretí, estúpid, idiota, imbècil |
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| Nouns | stupid | a person who is not very bright |
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| stupidity | a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience |
| Adverbs | stupidly | in a stupid manner |
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