stupid person
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈstuːpɪd ˈpɜːrsən/
- Offensive
:
persona estúpida
- It's frustrating to work with a stupid person who doesn't understand the simplest tasks.
- just stupid person
- only stupid people
- stupid people think
If you're arguing with stupid people, you're never going to win.
- If you're arguing with stupid people, you're never going to win.
- You can't let a stupid person be a judge, right?
- We talked about how bull markets make stupid people look smart.
- It is just a huge concentration of stupid people making bad decisions.
- And the problem is they didn't look like stupid people, OK?
- And everybody who works there, these are not stupid people.
- You've got to love stupid people.
- Functionally, at one time the manager class tried to just let all these stupid people die.
- That's a terrible, terrible mentality to have in life because we've got a lot of stupid people.
- And we're not going to hang out at stupid hours with stupid people doing stupid things because you get stupid outcomes, right?
- I would have been like, wait, all these stupid people out there think this is an AGI, but it's not an AGI.
- And in other cases, like he says, sense and folly are not at all native qualities in a person in a crisis, a stupid person becomes clever.
- Yeah, for the stupid people to understand.
Examples
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I really cannot comprehend how stupid people can be sometimes!
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It's often the stupid person who comes up with the good idea by accident!
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The world has many stupid people and few evil people.
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We are led by very, very stupid people.
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You should meet some stupid people.
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Are you attracted to stupid people?
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You can't let a stupid person be a judge, right?
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In a contest of cunning, a stupid person will get the better of a smart one every time.
Fiction book (2001) -
After all, stupid people are the hardest ones to convince that they're stupid.
Fiction book (1999) -
If you're arguing with stupid people, you're never going to win.
Synonyms
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1.2
A person who acts very stupidly, used as an insult
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8.4
A person who acts very stupidly and annoys others
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6.0
A person who is seen as stupid or makes simple mistakes
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9.9
A rude word for someone who does something very stupid
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7.9
A person who acts silly and not very smart
15
8.8
A person who is not very smart or who acts without thinking
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7.7
A person who is not very smart
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6.8
A person who is not very smart and often acts without thinking
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7.8
A person who is slow to understand things
4
8.9
A person who is very stupid
3
7.5
A person who is not very smart and often makes silly mistakes
3
9.9
A rude name for a person who is very silly or not smart
3
9.1
A person who often does foolish things or makes simple mistakes
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9.3
A person who is not very smart
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8.7
A person who is not very smart
1
2.7
A person who is not intelligent and often makes poor choices
1
9.9
A person who is foolish or silly and makes simple mistakes
1
9.8
A rude word for a person who is very stupid
1
9.9
A person who is not very smart
1
9.9
A person who is silly and not very clever
1
9.9
A person who is not very clever and is easy to trick
1
9.9
A person who is not very smart
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9.1
A playful insult for a person who acts silly
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9.9
A person who is not very intelligent
A person who is not very smart
A person who acts foolishly or forgets things
A very rude name used to insult someone who does something very stupid
Antonyms
How Stupid
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who lacks intelligence or shows poor judgment' is directly composed from the adjective 'stupid' and the noun 'person', so a learner who knows both words can infer the MWE meaning. This adjective + noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard semantic combination, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The term stupid person comes from an old use of stupid that meant 'stunned' or 'unable to think clearly', so imagine someone so dazed they make poor choices. That's why the phrase now means 'a person who lacks intelligence or shows poor judgment'.