Stupidity
[stʃʊ'pɪdɪtɪ;stʃuː'pɪdɪtɪ;stjʊ'pɪdɪtɪ;stjuː'pɪd]
Definition
(noun.) a stupid mistake.
(noun.) a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience.
Checker: Patrice--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
(n.) Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dulness, obtuseness, sluggishness of understanding, slowness of apprehension.[2]. Lifelessness, heaviness, insipidity, tameness, vapidness, want of interest.[3]. Stupor, lethargy, torpor, COMA, stupefaction, morbid drowsiness.
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Examples
- Captain Lydgate's stupidity was delicately scented, carried itself with style, talked with a good accent, and was closely related to Sir Godwin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And now in your stupidity have you come and killed all but myself, and like to have killed the mighty Sator Throg himself. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- After that, she was really anxious to go, and did not know what sort of stupidity her uncle was talking of when she went to shake hands with him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For stupidity. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There has been enough stupidity already. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Now I love pride; but hate your Lady Jane Paget-stupidity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I should dread the stupidity of the day, if there were not a much greater evil to follow--the impression it must leave on Sir Thomas. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Some time hence it will be all found out, and then we may laugh at their stupidity in not knowing it before. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- There are women of a stupidity and brutality that is insupportable. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The common ploughman, though generally regarded as the pattern of stupidity and ignorance, is seldom defective in this judgment and discretion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- By a mixacle of laziness and stupidity of the fascists which they will remedy in time. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If I had penned some _Quarterly_ cupidity, He would have gladly borne with its stupidity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I can say of you what will make it stupidity to suppose that you would be bribed to do a wickedness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It's perfectly useless, my Lord, attempting to get at any evidence through the impenetrable stupidity of this witness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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