French English Dictionary

stupide in English:

1. dumb

He got tired of being the devil's advocate and now agrees with every idea they suggest, no matter how dumb.

The world is full of dumb people.

I'm so dumb... I'm trying to explain things to you that I don't understand myself.

The definition of dumb is unable to speak or someone or something that appears stupid.

act dumb

The dumber the white man is, the more the black man looks dumb to him.

Dumb as a block of wood.

My poor dumb friend died this morning.

Light cares speak, great ones are dumb.

You gave him your phone number? That was a dumb thing to do.

All blonde women are dumb.

There was a fellow there who was Japanese and who was deaf and dumb and he could write I mean fluently.

Neil and Alice discuss TV chat show hosts, Greek philosophers and whether asking dumb questions is a good idea or not

Are computers making us dumb?

How dumb do you think it would be to break into a prison or steal a police car?

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2. stupid

He's stupid.

Pitching camp on sand banks that go under at high tide is a truly stupid thing to do.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.

Yea... Dima continued, talking mostly to himself. "It's as if the author of my story got into some stupid argument, retired to Fiji, and just left me here to rot."

They're stupid children, what a nuisance, she said. I replied praising them: "What are you saying, They're both smart, with a good memory and a promising future"

When I tried to speak to her, I always found myself too shy to do more than stammer or say something stupid.

I was assailed by the stupid, but unshakeable, idea that if I was imprudent enough to move my hand I'd be noticed.

This is probably a stupid question, but which is stronger, the tiger or the lion?

It must bother you to have taken a bad master. "I'm stupid too. So, it's all right."

This is a golden opportunity we'd be stupid to pass up. Let's get to work and finish it all in one fell swoop.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

she told him to stop messing about with his stupid painting. I was stupid enough to think she was perfect. You’re not a coward, stupid!

Probably just a stupid urban legend "But they do say 'there's no smoke without fire', don't they?"

Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of how you live?

The people all praised the emperor's clothes without telling him the truth so as not to seem stupid, until a little boy said, "The emperor is naked!"

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3. witless

a witless actor

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4. fatuous

ignoring the avalanche warnings, the fatuous skiers continued on their course

... law are protected by fatuous regulations.

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5. silly

Don't be silly!

Even the cleverest students can make silly mistakes.

Ikeda made several silly mistakes, and so he was told off by the department head.

The meeting was going off without a hitch until he threw a wet blanket on it by making silly remarks.

Bob thinks it is a silly idea to call his mother who is so far away, to spend so much, and to say so little.

It may never be known how we silly Anglophones got "baloney" out of "bologna."

His parents' view was that he was wasting his earnings on a silly girl.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

If my kid couldn't speak Shanghainese, I’d slap him silly. the man said.

This may be a silly question, but which is stronger - a tiger or a lion?

Sentences bring context to the words. Sentences have personalities. They can be funny, smart, silly, insightful, touching, hurtful.

What a silly question! That was a silly thing to do, wasn’t it? Don’t be silly – it’s only a spider. She makes a fuss about such silly little (= unimportant) things.

It is a silly practice for non-Christians to send chocolates on St. Valentine's Day.

All that's left for me is to drink myself silly with vodka and to get lost in sleep.

English word "stupide"(silly) occurs in sets:

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