Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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stupid

/ˈstjuːpɪd/ adjective, adverb, noun

Forms stupider stupidest stupids

  1. adjective (of animates) Lacking in intelligence. “It got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!”
  2. adjective Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence. “So I have to pay first, and then wait in line? That's a stupid rule!”
  3. adjective Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words. “The stupid rusty wire cut my thumb when I grabbed it.”
  4. adjective (euphemistic, by association) Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such. “I fall for every stupid trick every stupid day in this whole stupid world!”
  5. adjective To the point of stupor. “Neurobiology bores me stupid.”
  6. adjective (archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
  7. adjective (archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
  8. adjective Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
  9. adverb (slang) Extremely. “My gear is stupid fly.”
  10. noun A stupid person; a fool.
  11. noun (colloquial, uncountable) The condition or state of being stupid; stupidity, stupidness. “His stupid knows no bounds.”

Synonyms

daft inept addlebrained addlepated airheaded bee-brained beef-witted soft beefheaded beetle-headed birdbrained blockheaded Boeotian boneheaded boofheaded braindead brainless bubbleheaded buffle-headed bullet-headed stupid person stupe dullard dolt pudding head pudden-head poor fish pillock dazed stunned

Antonyms

intelligent nonstupid smart

Etymology

From Middle French stupide, from Latin stupidus (“struck senseless, amazed”), from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tup-, *(s)tewp- (“to push, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old High German stubarōn (“to be astonished, be stunned, be blocked”). Related also to Old English stoppian (“to block, stop”). More at stop.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; --said of persons.
  2. adjective Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; --said of things.

Etymology [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied: cf. F. stupide.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “stupid”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “stupid” (best matches first).

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