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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The quality or condition of being stupid.
  • noun A stupid act, remark, or idea.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A state of stupor or stupefaction; torpidity of feeling or of mind.
  • noun The character or quality of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; inanity; crass ignorance.
  • noun Synonyms See stupid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
  • noun rare Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The property of being stupid.
  • noun countable An act that is stupid.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
  • noun a stupid mistake

Etymologies

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From Latin stupiditas.

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