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

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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.

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

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

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. stupiditynoun

   a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience

   Synonyms:
   folly, betise, foolishness, imbecility

   Antonyms:
   intelligence

2. stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecilitynoun

   a stupid mistake

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

   Antonyms:
   intelligence

Matched Categories

1. • Inability
   • Mistake

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. stupiditynoun

   Synonyms:
   dulness, obtuseness, sluggishness of understanding, slowness of apprehension

2. stupiditynoun

   Synonyms:
   lifelessness, heaviness, insipidity, tameness, vapidness, want of interest

3. stupiditynoun

   Synonyms:
   stupor, lethargy, torpor, COMA, stupefaction, morbid drowsiness

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1. List of paraphrases for "stupidity":

   foolishness, nonsense, folly, stupid, blunder

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1. Gene Wolfe:

   There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

2. Prime Minister Manuel Valls:

   Let's stop the outpouring of stupidity.

3. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

4. Newt Gingrich:

   Anti-left, anti-PC, anti-stupidity and very passionately American, and he operates within that model all the time.

5. Remy de Gourmont:

   Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

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