adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a silly/stupid mistake
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You need to be able to laugh at your own silly mistakes.
a stupid/ridiculous suggestion
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It seemed a ridiculous suggestion.
a stupid/silly question (= one whose answer is obvious )
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Did you win, or is that a stupid question?
a terrible/stupid/odd etc thing to say
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I know it’s a terrible thing to say, but I wish he’d just go away.
stupid/ridiculous/crazy
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The idea sounded crazy to me.
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Camping in the middle of winter was a ridiculous idea!
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He had the crazy idea of hitchhiking around South America.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
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He didn't seem that type ... Imagine how stupid I must have looked!
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Such a philosophy is wholly unacceptable and shows how stupid the tax was.
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It was where the Knudsen had once hung. How stupid she'd been not to realise it from the start.
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It was a virtual law of nature. How stupid could he be?
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Now one might say: more fool them, how stupid to build their Alpine villages in the paths of potential avalanches.
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It struck me how stupid it is.
just
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They are the death riders or joyriders - just stupid and irresponsible people.
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It goes without saying that downright lies are just stupid .
rather
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In such circumstances their use of slang and informal language may make them seem rather stupid in the eyes of others.
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Wondering if she was really rather stupid , she searched her mind and acknowledged the truth.
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The Sons worked to free Calatin, but they were rather stupid .
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He wasn't, in fact, a very nice boy, a bully and rather stupid .
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It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles.
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That was it, end of rather stupid story.
really
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Only to cover my embarrassment, I say something really stupid .
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I maintained my composure, but made plain that I thought this was a really stupid policy, and left.
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I also like to session really stupid things.
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Those original Contract polls were not thorough enough to anticipate public reaction to really stupid political behavior.
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Charts are a really stupid way to value music.
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The really stupid thing is that Pardy got everything so wrong.
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It was a daft idea, really stupid .
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So it was really stupid of him to let you catch him after all.
so
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How could you be so stupid .
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Everybody is so stupid here, she said in her heart.
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She said, what I mean is he's so terribly good-looking, one could forget he's so stupid .
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They say things that are so stupid .
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Malcolm told him not to be so stupid .
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How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader?
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How could he have been so stupid ?
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Jack said Kiki should look at the pictures and learn about art and not be so stupid about it.
very
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And it was just very stupid because you can add nothing to a thing which is perfect like that.
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I felt very stupid ... and very different from everybody else.
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A week later I was running around with my underpants in my mouth feeling very stupid .
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I know it's very stupid of me, but I couldn't understand what it was supposed to be about at all.
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They wander. Very stupid animals, sheep.
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For unfortunately, very stupid people have the most to say.
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Or perhaps Ah should say very stupid .
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I was, of course, very stupid .
■ NOUN
idea
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Sometimes she exasperated herself with the stupid ideas she had.
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Don't get any stupid ideas .
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A stupid idea , when you think about it.
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What kind of stupid ideas have got into your head now?
man
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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met.
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Can't you see what it would be like, you blind stupid man ?
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But everyone knew there was not a more stupid man than Junior.
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He refused to eat, the stupid man , and he sent me some angry letters.
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Shallow men , ugly men, stupid men.
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It was simply the action of a stupid man who hadn't considered the consequences of his action.
people
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What a lot of stupid people they are to listen to a preacher anyway!
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Does anyone believe these stupid people are psychotherapists?
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For unfortunately, very stupid people have the most to say.
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I can't stand stupid people like Caliban, with their great deadweight of pettiness and selfishness and meanness of every kind.
question
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And how many more times was he going to ask himself that stupid question ?
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What on earth had made her ask a stupid question like that?
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It was, in one sense, a stupid question .
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As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one.
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It just seemed such a stupid question that's all.
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I don't come barging in and upsetting my daughter with stupid questions .
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Sorry - I mean - I mean that it was a stupid question !
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Afraid to ask seemingly stupid questions , I kept my mouth shut.
thing
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It was a stupid thing to do, he knew.
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Would you laugh like a loon at such stupid things ?
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It's like the stupid things that I tried to do once myself with that great pope of Velasquez.
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His cousin Cyril, who did brave stupid things , would be proud of him.
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The Labour party have lost their majority which has enabled them to do a lot of stupid things .
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Just let me tell you one stupid thing that Simon Newton did...
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I told him I thought it was a stupid thing for him to do.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as nice/as stupid etc as they come
beautiful/stupid/adorable etc creature
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Dominic remains, I would say, a preposterously beautiful creature .
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Drank five margaritas and waxed poetic about my screenplay to some adorable creature .
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His doe's a beautiful creature , too.
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I was there till I was eighteen: marriage would be fun; husbands were adorable creatures .
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It is the same with visual responses to light and darkness, to summer and winter, to beautiful creatures or plants.
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The Copper Beech Naiads were the most beautiful creatures any of them had ever seen.
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They were beautiful creatures with red legs, black head and thorax, and black white-ringed antennae.
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To me, Dominic was always a beautiful creature .
dumb/stupid cluck
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You dumb cluck , why'd you tell him?
it is kind/stupid/careless etc of sb (to do sth)
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But, it, it is kind of funny.
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So it is kind of coming home and a change of focus.
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The idea of it is kind of cute: This little Frank guy is trying to find candy.
old/stupid bag
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All the other literary women he knew were old bags of whom he would be bitterly ashamed.
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Give it to the old bag , Normy!
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He handed Eleanor's book to a moralistic old bag he had once done a writing workshop with.
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He was stuffing drawing and painting materials into a shabby old bag .
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Me, an old bag of black sheep.
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One crack or tear in them, and they would sag like an old bag of sand.
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That would show the old bag .
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Who was that beaten-up old bag wearing my clothes?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a stupid question
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Don't you call me a stupid idiot!
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He's so stupid that he couldn't even find New York on the map.
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I didn't say you were stupid , I said it was a stupid thing to do.
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I have to stay late and finish this stupid report.
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I was very drunk last night -- I hope I didn't do anything stupid .
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It's only stupid people who believe in all that astrology mumbo-jumbo.
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It was stupid of me to believe her of course, but I did.
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Poor Larry's too stupid to realize when you're making fun of him.
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She is sometimes naive, but she's not stupid .
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She talks to us as if we're completely stupid .
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The stupid gate won't open properly.
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This is stupid - I don't want to play this game anymore.
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We did a lot of stupid things in high school.
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Well, if you're stupid enough to skate on the lake, you deserve to fall in.
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Withdraw the police from the area? I've never heard such a stupid idea!
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You'd have to be stupid not to take advantage of a great offer like this!
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You stupid boy! I've told you not to play with matches!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But without the cricket intelligence, straight-talking is a stupid pastime.
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It was a stupid thought and she was not amused.
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It was also extremely stupid , because it means she knows about it and so you can't blackmail me.
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Maybe he thinks Wayne is big and ugly and greasy and stupid .
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Perhaps he had been stupid , but had he actually done any damage?
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She could tell, instantly, that he was stupid .
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The easy answer is, they were stupid , and it may be the real answer, too.
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This has got to be one of the most embarrassing film moments of the year -- sophomoric, self-congratulatory and stupid .