different between stupid vs carnal

English

Etymology

From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupe? (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-, *(s)tewp- (“to wonder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to stand, stay”). Cognate with Old High German stubar?n (“to be astonished, be stunned, be blocked”). Related also to Old English stoppian (“to block, stop”). See stop.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?stju?p?d/
• (Northern UK) IPA^(key): /??tju?p?d/, /st??ju?p?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st(j)up?d/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /??t??j??p?d/

Adjective

stupid (comparative stupider or more stupid, superlative stupidest or most stupid)

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

   Because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
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
6. (slang) Amazing.

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

7. (slang) Darn, annoying.

   I fell over the stupid wire.

   • 2018, "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!" DuckTales:

     Duey: "It's too narrow for all three of us. Oh, bummer!"

     Huey "Or we could just go single file."

     Duey "Stupid smart Huey..."

Derived terms

Related terms

Synonyms

• inept

Translations

References

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

Adverb

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.

Translations

Noun

stupid (countable and uncountable, plural stupids)

1. A stupid person; a fool.
   • 1922, Elizabeth G. Young, Homestead ranch

     "What a stupid I am!" Harry exclaimed, as she watched the man ride away in the distance.
2. (colloquial, uncountable) The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness.

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Latin stupidus (“senseless”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stupi?d/, [sd?u?p?ið?]
• Rhymes: -id

Adjective

stupid

1. oafish
2. stupid (lacking in intelligence)

Inflection

Related terms

• stupiditet

Romanian

Etymology

French stupide, Latin stupidus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [stu?pid]

Adjective

stupid m or n (feminine singular stupid?, masculine plural stupizi, feminine and neuter plural stupide)

1. stupid

   Synonyms: idiot, prost, tâmpit

Declension

Adverb

stupid

1. stupidly

Related terms

• stupiditate

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin carn?lis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from car? (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??n?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?l

Adjective

carnal (comparative more carnal, superlative most carnal)

1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.
2. Worldly or earthly; temporal.
3. Of or relating to the body or flesh.

Derived terms

• carnally
• carnal knowledge

Related terms

• incarnate
• incarnation
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

Translations

Further reading

• carnal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• carnal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin carn?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /k???nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /k?r?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka??nal/

Adjective

carnal (masculine and feminine plural carnals)

1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
2. consanguineous (descending from the same ancestor)

Related terms

• carn
• carnalitat

Further reading

• “carnal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carnal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “carnal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carnal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kar?nal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

carnal

1. carnal

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese carnal, from Latin carn?lis (“of the flesh”), from car? (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /ka?.?naw/, /ka?.?naw/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka?.?naw/, /ka?.?naw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k??.?na?/
• Hyphenation: car?nal

Adjective

carnal m or f (plural carnais, comparable)

1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
2. (religion) carnal; earthly; worldly (concerned with human matters)

   Synonym: terreno

   Antonym: espiritual

3. consanguineous (descending from the same ancestor)

   Synonym: consanguíneo

Related terms

• carnalidade
• carnalmente
• carnalizar
• carne

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin carn?lis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from car? (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??nal/, [ka??nal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: car?nal

Adjective

carnal (plural carnales)

1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)

   Synonyms: sexual, libidinoso

2. consanguineous, by blood (related through birth)

   Synonym: consanguíneo

Noun

carnal m (plural carnales, feminine carnala, feminine plural carnalas)

1. (Mexico) Ellipsis of hermano carnal (“brother by blood”); brother (in opposition to adopted or in-law)

Related terms

• carnalidad
• carne

Further reading

• “carnal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.