Antonyms for stupidity
stuˈpɪd ɪ ti, styu-stu·pid·i·ty

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stupidity

   Stupidity is sometimes loosely used for temporary dulness or partial stupor, but chiefly for innate and chronic dulness and sluggishness of mental action, obtuseness of apprehension, etc. Apathy may be temporary, and be dispelled by appeal to the feelings or by the presentation of an adequate motive, but stupidity is inveterate and commonly incurable. Compare APATHY; IDIOCY; STUPOR.

   Antonyms:
   acuteness, alertness, animation, brilliancy, cleverness, intelligence, keenness, quickness, readiness, sagacity, sense, sensibility

   Synonyms:
   apathy, dulness, insensibility, obtuseness, slowness, sluggishness, stupefaction, stupor

Matched Categories

1. • Inability
   • Mistake

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stupiditynoun

   a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience

   Antonyms:
   intelligence

   Synonyms:
   folly, betise, foolishness, imbecility

2. stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecilitynoun

   a stupid mistake

   Antonyms:
   intelligence

   Synonyms:
   lunacy, imbecility, madness, foolery, betise, tomfoolery, indulgence, unwiseness, foolishness, folly, craziness

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. smart

   Submitted by anonymous on April 19, 2020  

2. brilliance

   Submitted by anonymous on May 7, 2020  

3. speedrun

   Submitted by anonymous on April 6, 2021  

How to use stupidity in a sentence?

1. Fox News:

   Whether they want it or not, this is the message Democrats own and will own for the foreseeable future, welcome to the stupidity of the real.

2. Friedrich von Schiller:

   With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

3. Orrin Hatch:

   I respect my Democratic colleagues, but this is stupidity, if they want to cause an Armageddon, wait 'til the next nominee is nominated. Then, if they don't like that, that's perhaps when they could use the filibuster. But to use it on a nominee like Neil Gorsuch -- that's just crazy.

4. Henry David Thoreau:

   As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

5. Proverb:

   If stupidity were a crime, half the human race would be hanged at every crossroads.

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