Thesaurus:stupid
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Sense: lacking in intelligence[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- addlebrained
- addlepated
- airheaded
- bee-brained
- beefheaded
- beef-witted
- beetle-headed
- birdbrained
- blockheaded
- Boeotian
- boofheaded
- boneheaded
- bubbleheaded
- buffle-headed
- bullet-headed
- brainless
- chowderheaded
- crackbrained
- cretinous
- chuckleheaded
- dense
- dented
- dim [⇒ thesaurus]
- dim-bulb
- dim-headed
- dim-witted
- doltish
- dopey
- dull
- dull-headed
- dull-minded
- dull-witted
- dumb
- dumber than a box of rocks
- dunderheaded
- fatheaded
- feeble-minded
- flea-brained
- foolish [⇒ thesaurus]
- fuzzy-headed
- fuzzy-minded
- half-witted
- hammer-headed
- idiotic
- imbecilic
- knuckleheaded
- lamebrained
- lowbrow
- lumpish
- lunkheaded
- mentally challenged
- mentally retarded (offensive)
- mindless
- monosynaptic
- moronic
- muttonheaded
- nitwitted
- numbskulled
- oafish
- obtuse
- peabrained
- pratty
- pudding-headed
- purblind (literary)
- quarter-witted
- retarded (offensive)
- rockheaded
- sheep-headed
- simple
- slow [⇒ thesaurus]
- slow-witted
- smooth-brained
- stupid
- thick
- thickheaded
- thick-skulled
- thickwitted
- unapprehensive
- unclever
- unintelligent
- unsmart
- witless
- wooden-headed
- wool-headed
- woolly-headed
- woolly-minded
- dumb as a bag of hammers
- dumb as a box of rocks
- dumb as a doorknob
- dumb as an ox
- dumb as a post
- dumb as a sack of hammers
- dumb as dirt
- dumber than a rock
- not the sharpest crayon in the box
- not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- not the sharpest tool in the shed
- thick as a brick
- thick as a plank
- thick as champ
- thick as mince
- thick as two short planks
- thick as a whale omelette
Vulgar[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
See also[edit]
- Appendix:Snowclones/few X short of a Y
- Thesaurus:foolish
- Thesaurus:idiot
- Thesaurus:ignorant
- Thesaurus:insane
See also[edit]
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 450a. Absence of intellect
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 499. Imbecility
Further reading[edit]
- “stupid” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.