1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. "O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God!" -- Milton. "With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood." -- Thomson. 2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things. "Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times." -- Swift. Syn. -- Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- Stu"pid*ly (#), adv. -- Stu"pid*ness, n. |