Dumb vs. Stupid

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  • Stupid

    Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit or sense. Stupidity may be innate, assumed or reactive – a defence against grief or trauma.

Wikipedia
  • Dumb (adjective)

    Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in “deaf, dumb, and blind”).

    “His younger brother was born dumb, and communicated with sign language.”

  • Dumb (adjective)

    Silent; unaccompanied by words.

    “dumb show”

  • Dumb (adjective)

    extremely stupid.

    “You are so dumb! You don’t even know how to make toast!”

  • Dumb (adjective)

    Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.

    “This is dumb! We’re driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago!”

    “Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another.”

  • Dumb (adjective)

    Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.

  • Dumb (verb)

    To silence.

  • Dumb (verb)

    To make stupid.

  • Dumb (verb)

    To represent as stupid.

  • Dumb (verb)

    To reduce the intellectual demands of.

  • Stupid (adjective)

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

    “Because it’s a big stupid jellyfish!”

  • Stupid (adjective)

    To the point of stupor.

    “Neurobiology bores me stupid.”

  • Stupid (adjective)

    Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.

  • Stupid (adjective)

    Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.

  • Stupid (adjective)

    dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid

  • Stupid (adjective)

    Amazing.

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

  • Stupid (adjective)

    damn, annoying, darn

    “I fell over the stupid wire.”

  • Stupid (adverb)

    Extremely.

    “My gear is stupid fly.”

  • Stupid (noun)

    A stupid person; a fool.

  • Stupid (noun)

    The state or condition of being stupid.

    “His stupid knows no bounds.”

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