Thesaurus:stupid
English
Adjective
Sense: lacking in intelligence
Synonyms
- addlebrained
- addlepated
- airheaded
- bee-brained
- beef-witted
- beefheaded
- beetle-headed
- birdbrained
- blockheaded
- Boeotian
- boneheaded
- boofheaded
- brainless
- bubbleheaded
- buffle-headed
- bullet-headed
- cerebrally challenged
- childish [⇒ thesaurus]
- chowderheaded
- chuckleheaded
- crackbrained
- cretinous
- dense
- dented
- dim-bulb
- dim-headed
- dim-witted
- dim [⇒ thesaurus]
- doltish
- dopey
- dozy
- drowsy
- dull-headed
- dull-minded
- dull-witted
- dull
- dumber than a box of rocks
- dumb
- dunderheaded
- empty-headed
- fatheaded
- feeble-minded
- flea-brained
- foolish [⇒ thesaurus]
- fuzzy-headed
- fuzzy-minded
- half-brained
- half-witted
- hammer-headed
- idiotic
- imbecilic
- imbecilic
- inane
- insipid [⇒ thesaurus]
- intellectually challenged
- knuckleheaded
- lamebrained
- lowbrow
- lumpish
- lunkheaded
- mentally challenged
- mentally retarded (offensive)
- mindless
- monosynaptic
- moronic
- muttonheaded
- nitwitted
- numbskulled
- oafish
- obtuse
- peabrained
- pratty
- pudding-headed
- puerile
- purblind (literary)
- quarter-witted
- retarded (offensive)
- rockheaded
- sharp as a bowling ball
- sheep-headed
- simple
- slow-witted
- slow [⇒ thesaurus]
- smooth-brained
- stolid
- stupid
- thick-skulled
- thickheaded
- thickwitted
- thick
- unapprehensive
- unclever
- unintelligent
- unsmart
- vacant
- vacuous
- witless
- wooden-headed
- wool-headed
- woolly-headed
- woolly-minded
- dumb as a bag of hammers
- dumb as a box of rocks
- dumb as a doorknob
- dumb as an ox
- dumb as a post
- dumb as a sack of hammers
- dumb as dirt
- dumber than a rock
- not the sharpest crayon in the box
- not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- not the sharpest tool in the shed
- thick as a brick
- thick as a plank
- thick as champ
- thick as mince
- thick as two short planks
- thick as a whale omelette
Vulgar
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Various
See also
- Appendix:Snowclones/few X short of a Y
- Thesaurus:fool
- Thesaurus:foolish
- Thesaurus:idiot
- Thesaurus:ignorant
- Thesaurus:insane
See also
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 450a. Absence of intellect
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 499. Imbecility
Further reading
- “stupid” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.