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单词 stupid
释义 stu·pid
I. \ˈst(y)üpə̇d\ adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus, from stupēre to be benumbed, be astonished, be stupefied; akin to Greek typtein to beat, strike — more at type
1.
 a. : slow of mind : unimaginative, obtuse, insensitive
  < came to regard them as stupid, sensual, veritable children of Adam — V.L.Parrington >
  < will defy the most phlegmatic and stupid spectator to behold it without admiration — Tobias Smollett >
  < bellowed into his ear as if he were deaf instead of stupid — Anthony Trollope >
 b. : given to unintelligent decisions or acts : unthinking, irrational
  < while he may be wrong … he is never stupid — G.W.Johnson >
  < consider myself at least stupid for not having profited from many opportunities — Emery Neff >
  < reality is right under your stupid nose — Lionel Trilling >
 c. : lacking intelligence or reasoning power : brutish
  < getting the better of stupider beasts — G.A.Morgan >
2.
 a. : dulled in feeling or sensation : being in a state of stupor : torpid
  < stupid with drink — Sherwood Anderson >
  < stupid with the lust of gain and the sloth of slavery — Van Wyck Brooks >
  < let fall the stupid inanimate limbs of the gone wretch — George Meredith >
 b. : incapable of feeling or sensation : inanimate
  < nothing is quite so stupid as a fact — A.L.Guérard >
  < the stupid rain came down in buckets — J.W.Ellison b.1929 >
3. : marked by or resulting from dullness or unintelligent thinking : senseless
 < a stupid refusal to be realistic — W.F.Hambly >
 < appalling capacity of collective man for stupid, blind, self-destructive behavior — H.J.Muller >
 < takes everything seriously in a stupid and unimaginative fashion — K.T.Bluth >
 < it is stupid to wait until a probable enemy has gained a foothold from which to attack — F.D.Roosevelt >
4. : lacking interest or point : dreary, boring
 < went to an awfully stupid evening … Monday night — Rachel Henning >
 < would not have minded his going to this stupid lunch — A.J.Cronin >
 < a really stupid performance >
5. dialect England : obstinate, mulish
Synonyms:
 dull, dense, crass, dumb: stupid applies to a sluggish, slow-witted want of intelligence or comprehension, often congenital or accustomed; it may apply to a senseless, benumbed, or dazed condition
  < so stupid and so obstinate that it was impossible to get him to do or understand anything — Anthony Trollope >
  < stupid with liquor and unable to understand that the ambulance had already gone — Scott Fitzgerald >
  < sleepy and stupid after a broken night and a hard day's work — Dorothy Sayers >
  dull strongly implies sluggish labored slowness of mind, with utter lack of quickness, brightness, or liveliness
  < a dull, ambitionless, vegetating individual — J.A.Brussel >
  < with its impotent ruling classes and its dull and puritanical middle classes — Edward Shils >
  dense applies to a blockheaded thick imperviousness or insensitive obtuseness
  < she never offered to take me over the house, though I gave her the broadest hints — she's very dense — Clive Arden >
  crass suggests a fatheaded grossness precluding delicacy, discrimination, or refinement
  < in deep disgust at the farrier's crass incompetence to apprehend the conditions of ghostly phenomena — George Eliot >
  < a crass bonehead capable of sneering at the progress of the human race — Don Marquis >
  dumb may apply to an imperceptive vexatious obtuseness
  < that the nutmegs were easily sold and eagerly bought is beside the story; the wonder is that we Southerners were so dumb, we did not know the difference — Erskine Caldwell >
  < I guess I was pretty dumb that morning, but a fellow in love never sees beyond his own nose — Vicki Baum >
II. noun
(-s)
: a stupid person
 < the generals were stupids — Stephen Crane >
 < such a stupid with my hands — John Selby >
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