Find the word definition

Crossword clues for stupidity

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stupidity
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crass stupidity
▪ an act of crass stupidity
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be the height of fashion/stupidity/luxury etc
▪ All these artists were the height of fashion in the middle years of the 19C.
▪ The stunning luminous display and thickly padded, genuine leather wristband are the height of fashion in any setting.
sheer luck/happiness/stupidity etc
▪ By sheer luck I had given Reuters their biggest news scoop since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
▪ He made it through sheer luck and by attaching himself to one guy after another and then stepping over them.
▪ She flung out her hands and caught the edge of the stone by sheer luck.
▪ So I guessed right; sheer luck.
▪ Would anybody see if I just nudged them over the edge for their sheer stupidity?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Several guys were wounded because of his stupidity.
▪ The past 41 years have been an endless parade of stupidities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clearly, more and better research will be required if science hopes to find a cure for diet-related stupidity in our lifetime.
▪ For all my stupidity, I was able to understand that much.
▪ Gedge pointed out the inherent stupidity of the famous theatrical cliché.
▪ His cursing, stupidity and general obnoxiousness provide ample material for Sedaris' wit.
▪ In the end it was only his own meanness and stupidity that brought down nemesis.
▪ Recognisable human failings-pomposity, stupidity, naivety and cunning-came together in hilariously believable scripts.
▪ They've described the incident as mindless stupidity.
▪ This was at odds with everything the rangers had said about Adivassi laziness, Adivassi stupidity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stupidity

Stupidity \Stu*pid"i*ty\, n. [L. stupiditas: cf. F. stupidit['e].]

  1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.

  2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. [R.]

    A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear.
    --Chapman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stupidity

1540s, "want of intelligence," from Latin stupiditatem (nominative stupiditas) "dullness, stupidity, senselessness," from stupidus "confounded, amazed; dull, foolish" (see stupid). It also at various times meant "lack of feeling or emotion" (1560s); "stupor, numbness" (c.1600).

Wiktionary
stupidity

n. (context uncountable English) The property of being stupid.

WordNet
stupidity
  1. n. a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience [ant: intelligence]

  2. a stupid mistake [syn: betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility]

Wikipedia
Stupidity (Bad Manners album)

Stupidity is the ninth studio album by Bad Manners, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music).

Stupidity

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

Stupidity (Dr. Feelgood album)

Stupidity was the third album by Dr. Feelgood. It was released in September 1976, and was their first live album recording. Their mushrooming popularity was confirmed when Stupidity (1976) topped the UK charts.

The album reached number 1 in the UK Albums Chart in October 1976 (for one week), and remained in that chart for nine weeks. It was the first ever live album to go to number 1 in the UK chart in its first week of release. It was Dr. Feelgood's first and, to date, only recording to reach number 1, and appeared over eight months before their first single entered the corresponding UK Singles Chart - " Sneakin' Suspicion" (June 1977).

Along with Rock Follies in 1976, it reached the top spot in the UK without the benefit of a hit single.

Stupidity (disambiguation)

Stupidity is the property a person, action or belief instantiates by virtue of having or being indicative of low intelligence or poor learning abilities.

Stupidity may also refer to

  • Stupidity (Bad Manners album) (2003)
  • Stupidity (Dr. Feelgood album) (1976)

Usage examples of "stupidity".

Or, as a good anticlerical, is he mocking the stupidity of the religious cliches Panurge recites?

Her mud stupidities, as well as the frequent gaucheries which seemed to bother others, he thought of as merely amusing-perhaps because he grew tired at times of being surrounded by clever, vigilant minds, forever striving to match the astuteness of his own.

Dexter found that after a long day of booze and blather, his party energy had evaporated, nor had he reached the state of sotted stupidity where it was possible to believe that he could prop himself up with more.

Still pondering over the bad habits and abysmal stupidity of Blotto, Hunter Hawk threw open all the windows and, turning his back to the night, sought the safety and sanctity of his bed.

Shaoki, then by their hirelings, the heavy lifter unit the Malleus Maulers, was chance, the typical Shaoki strategic stupidity, or the knowledge the Khelat were coming.

In any case, with true Saronese stupidity he has miscued Computer A-5.

The smug stupidity of these Aubinans had grated on her for years during the case of Porteous Glaves.

Sorensen so intelligently pointed out, psychopathic behavior is usually very distinctive -- it is characterized by impulsiveness, stupidity, and errors due to an attention span limited by emotional disorder.

The voice of reason is feeble against human stupidity, and the Muller family, collectively and individually, represent the quintessence of feeblemindedness.

Instantly regretting her impulsiveness, she rubbed her stinging palm and bit her lower lip to keep from crying over her own stupidity.

Even in the last three or four years of his life, at Supreme Army Headquarters, where he allowed himself to be overwhelmed with details of military strategy, tactics and command, he would take an evening off to reminisce with his old party cronies on the stupidity of the teachers he had had in his youth.

Republicans permits only one narrow exception: When not defined by their monumental stupidity, Republicans must be scarily weird.

Stupidity, thought Jugurtha, torn by a mixture of horror at the sight of Nabdalsa and anger at the thoughtlessness of his brutes, beginning in the one place they ought to have kept free and clear of their attentions.

Looking up at this thing glowing unlight or is it light over the rock edge he knows the songs for the atoms, the infinitely tiny specks of stupidity they are.

And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners!