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| Main Entry: | stupid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not intelligent; irresponsible |
| Synonyms: | brainless, dazed, deficient, dense, dim, dopey*, dull, dumb, dummy*, foolish, futile, gullible, half-baked*, half-witted*, idiotic, ill-advised, inane, indiscreet, insensate, irrelevant, laughable, loser*, ludicrous, meaningless, mindless, moronic, naive, nonsensical, obtuse, pointless, puerile, rash, senseless, shortsighted, simple, simpleminded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, thick, trivial, unintelligent, unthinking, witless, doltish, imbecilic, out to lunch, thick-headed |
| Notes: | stupid refers to lack of ability while ignorant refers to lack of knowledge |
| Antonyms: | cognizant, intelligent, responsible, smart |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | absurd |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ridiculous, senseless |
| Synonyms: | batty, crazy, daffy, flaky*, foolish, goofy*, idiotic, illogical, inane, incongruous, irrational, laughable, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty, off the wall, preposterous, sappy*, screwy*, silly, stupid, unreasonable, wacky, campy, dippy, fooling around, for grins, freaky, gagged up, jokey, joshing, tomfool |
| Antonyms: | certain, logical, rational, reasonable, sensible, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | asinine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | senseless |
| Synonyms: | absurd, daft, foolish, half-witted, idiotic, inane, moronic, silly, sophomoric, stupid, cretinous |
| Main Entry: | banal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | blah*, bland, common, conventional, corny, dumb, everyday, flat, hackneyed, hokey*, humdrum*, insipid, mundane, nothing, old hat, ordinary, pabulum*, pedestrian, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stupid, tired, tripe, trite, unimaginative, unoriginal, vapid, watery, wishy-washy*, zero*, bromidic, clichéd, cornball, cornfed, dull as dishwater, ho hum, noplace, nowhere, platitudinous |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | arid, bomb*, bummer*, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, dull, flat*, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten*, mundane, nothing, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, zero*, bromidic, characterless, drudging, ho hum, nowhere, platitudinous, unvaried, well-worn |
| Antonyms: | exciting, fascinating, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comatose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
| Synonyms: | cold, dead, dopey, drowsy, drugged, insensible, lethargic, out, out cold*, senseless, sleepy, sluggish, somnolent, stupefied, stupid, torpid, dead to the world, hebetudinous, inconscious, out to lunch, slumberous, soporose, stuporous, vegged out |
| Antonyms: | alert, awake, conscious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | corny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trite, clichéd |
| Synonyms: | banal, commonplace, dull, feeble, hackneyed, mawkish, melodramatic, old hat, old-fashioned, sentimental, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stupid, tired, warmed-over |
| Antonyms: | new, original, unique |
| Main Entry: | crass |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse, insensitive |
| Synonyms: | asinine, boorish, bovine, churlish, dense, gross, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, lumpish, oafish, obtuse, raw, rough, rude, stupid, uncouth, unrefined, vulgar, witless, Philistine, blundering, doltish, lowbrow |
| Antonyms: | careful, delicate, kind, nice, refined, sensitive, tactful |
| Main Entry: | dolt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid person |
| Synonyms: | blockhead*, boob*, chump*, dimwit*, dope, dumbbell*, dunce, fool, goon*, idiot, ignoramus, nitwit*, sap*, simpleton, stupid, airhead, clodpate*, dodo, dork, dumdum, lamebrain*, lunkhead, meathead, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | brain, genius |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | empty-headed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flighty, scatterbrained |
| Synonyms: | brainless, dizzy, featherbrained, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, ignorant, illiterate, inane, silly, skittish, stupid, uneducated, unschooled, untaught, vacant, vacuous, know-nothing |
| Antonyms: | cognizant, intelligent, sensible, slick, smart |
| Main Entry: | expressionless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a blank look on face |
| Synonyms: | dead*, deadpan, dull, empty, impassive, inexpressive, inscrutable, lackluster, stolid, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wooden, fish-eyed, lusterless, nobody home, poker-faced*, straight-faced, unexpressive |
| Antonyms: | animated, demonstrative, expressive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | farcical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absurd |
| Synonyms: | amusing, camp, comic, comical, droll, funny, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, outrageous, preposterous, ridiculous, risible, slapstick, stupid, campy, derisory, diverting, for grins, gelastic, joshing |
| Antonyms: | real, reasonable, sensible, serious, tragic |
| Main Entry: | feebleminded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally handicapped |
| Synonyms: | dim-witted, dumb, half-witted, moronic, retarded, simple, slow, stupid, unintelligent, weak-minded, dull-witted, imbecilic, soft in the head |
| Main Entry: | foolish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonsensical, idiotic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, asinine, brainless, crazy, daffy*, daft, dotty*, fantastic, fatuous, feebleminded*, half-baked*, half-witted*, harebrained*, ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insane, irrational, jerky*, loony*, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, moronic, nutty*, preposterous, ridiculous, senseless, short-sighted, silly, simple, stupid, unintelligent, unreasonable, unwise, wacky*, weak, witless, zany*, cockamamy, dippy, doltish, ill-considered, imbecilic, kooky, nerdy |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, circumspect, prudent, sensible, serious, thoughtful, wise, unfoolish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | goofy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly |
| Synonyms: | crazy, daffy*, dopey, dotty, empty-headed*, flaky*, foolish, idiotic, nutty*, screwy, stupid, wacky*, weird, dippy, ditzy, kooky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | idiot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very stupid person |
| Synonyms: | blockhead, bonehead*, cretin, dimwit, dumbbell, dunce, fool, ignoramus, imbecile, jerk, kook*, moron, nincompoop, nitwit, pinhead*, simpleton, stupid, dork, muttonhead, ninny, out to lunch, tomfool, twit |
| Antonyms: | brain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impolitic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unwise, careless |
| Synonyms: | brash, ill-advised, imprudent, inadvisable, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious, maladroit, misguided, rash, stupid, tactless, untimely, ill-judged, undiplomatic |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, discreet, politic, wise |
| Main Entry: | inapt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incompetent; not suitable |
| Synonyms: | awkward, banal, clumsy, dull, flat, gauche, ill-suited, improper, inappropriate, incongruous, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, insipid, jejune, maladroit, malapropos, slow, stupid, unable, unfit, unskilled, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, ill-adapted, ill-fitted, inadept, inapposite, infelicitous, undexterous, unfacile, unhandy, unmeet, unproficient |
| Antonyms: | apt, competent, happy, suitable, suited |
| Main Entry: | irrational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illogical, senseless |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, absurd, brainless, crazy, delirious, demented, disconnected, disjointed, distraught, fallacious, flaky*, foolish, incoherent, injudicious, insane, invalid, loony*, mad, mindless, nonsensical, nutty*, preposterous, raving, ridiculous, silly, specious, stupid, unreasonable, unsound, unstable, unthinking, unwise, wacky*, wild, wrong, cockamamie, freaky, kooky, off-the-wall, reasonless, sophistic, unreasoning |
| Antonyms: | logical, rational, reasonable, reflective, sensible, sound, stable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | listless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spiritless, without energy |
| Synonyms: | absent, abstracted, apathetic, blah*, bored, careless, dormant, dreamy, drowsy, dull, easygoing, enervated, faint, heavy, heedless, impassive, inanimate, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, lackadaisical, laid-back*, languid, languishing, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, lukewarm, neutral, passive, phlegmatic, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, stupid, supine, thoughtless, torpid, uninterested, vacant, energyless, lagging, languorous, lymphatic, mopish, out of it |
| Antonyms: | active, alert, attentive, energetic, lively, untired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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