different between stupid vs laughable

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 laugh +? -able.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?la?f?bl?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??f?bl?/, /?læf?bl?/
• (US) enPR: ?l?f?bl?, IPA^(key): /?læf?bl?/

Adjective

laughable (comparative more laughable, superlative most laughable)

1. (now rare) Fitted to excite laughter; humorous.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91:

     At this our first dinner at the Government House a very laughable incident occurred.

2. Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.

Synonyms

• droll, ludicrous, mirthful, comical, risible, ridiculous

Derived terms

• laughableness
• laughably

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