stupid

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Showing a lack of intelligence or good sense.

   It was a stupid mistake that cost us the game.

2. 2
   adj

   (informal) Annoying or pointless.

   I can't get this stupid door to open.

3. 3
   noun

   A foolish person.

   "You stupid!" she shouted, "now we have to start again."

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Simplified etymology

Stupid entered English in the mid-16th century from French stupide or Latin stupidus, derived from stupere, “be amazed or stunned.” The sense “slow-witted” or “foolish” developed around the same period and eventually became dominant. Stupor and stupendous come from the same Latin source.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-éh₁-ye-ti Latin stupeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Latin -idus Latin stupidusder. Middle French stupideder. English stupid From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-, *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old High German…

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