stupidとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈstjuː.pɪd/
• (Northern 英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃtjuː.pɪd/, /st͡ʃjuː.pɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈst(j)u.pɪd/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃt͡ʃjʉː.pəd/
• 韻: -uːpɪd

形容詞

stupid (comparative stupider または more stupid, superlative stupidest または most stupid)

1. Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.

   It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!

   • 2014 May 1, John Barker, Futures: A Novel‎^[1], PM Press, page 131:

     I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid

2. To the point of stupor.

   Neurobiology bores me stupid.

3. (archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
   • 1702 Alexander Pope, Sappho 128:

     No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe.

4. (archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
   • 1744 George Berkeley, Siris §190:

     Were it not for [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass.

5. Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 7:

     She had never seen Frank Churchill so silent and stupid. He said nothing worth hearing—looked without seeing—admired without intelligence—listened without knowing what she said.

6. (slang) Amazing.

   That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!

7. (slang, euphemistic) Replaces an obscene or profane word.
   • 1986 February 23, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

     Mom: Oh you stupid car! What's wrong with you now?!?
     Calvin: That's it, Mom! Go ahead and swear! We don't mind!

   • 1986 April 7, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

     Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid lima beans.

   • 2018, “The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!”, in DuckTales:

     Dewey: "It's too narrow for all three of us. Oh, bummer!"
     Huey: "Or we could just go single file."
     Dewey: "Stupid smart Huey..."

   I fell over the stupid wire.

   We can't go swimming because there's a big stupid jellyfish in the water!

同意語

• daft
• inept

派生語

関連する語

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “stupid”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

副詞

stupid (comparative more stupid, superlative most stupid)

1. (slang) Extremely.

   My gear is stupid fly.

   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):

     Richard DeLongpre: Aw, we did, didn't we? I'm sorry. I'm so stupid in love with you.

   • 2013, Lady Gaga (lyrics かつ music), “Jewels N' Drugs”, in Artpop:

     I'm your mother, sister, your father, brother / This family is stupid attractive

名詞

stupid (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 stupids)

1. A stupid person; a fool.
   • 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Strategist”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 87:

     "You stupid!" screamed the girls, "we've got to guess the word. Now you'll have to go back and think of another."

   • 1922, Elizabeth G. Young, Homestead ranch:

     "What a stupid I am!" Harry exclaimed, as she watched the man ride away in the distance.

   • 1972, “Smoke on the Water”, performed by Deep Purple:

     Some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground.

   • 1996, Anita Rau Badamim, Tamarind Mem:

     At least those stupids got their money's worth out of this country before they burnt their lungs out.

2. (colloquial, uncountable) The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness.

   His stupid knows no bounds.