Dumber Dictionary Definition
A lead step, on Warhol`s forehead, came when one of his intense paintings of car accidents went for “only” $8 million. A little girl at school said yesterday that I was “terribly stupid, dumber than a goose.” When you see these people on Fox “News,” you change channels because they make you stupid. You`ll probably think this question is more silly than stupid, a waste of neurons. There were a lot more things like that – each silly letter than the previous one – but you have the general idea. Sa nagkadugay ka ning trabahúa nagkatuntu ka sab, The more you are into this work, the more stupid you become. I think he can do it, especially with the involuntary help of the Republicans, who are getting stupid every week. The sound of my footsteps will make your heart beat faster. A glance from me will make you stupid for an hour. However, not all terrible and surprisingly stupid political memes are created equal. In a way, painting portraits is really stupid and painting portraits of hundreds of people is ridiculous. The way I film is based on the assumption that the audience is just as smart and stupid as I am.
The term stupid as a descriptor for someone who did not have the ability to speak was once common, and from the beginning of the 19th century it appeared in the names of schools and advocacy groups. However, in the same century, the rejection of the term by the population it sought to describe began, and at the end of the 20th century, the insult to stupidity was widely recognized. When only one term is needed to describe someone who does not have the ability to speak, the adjective mute is used instead. “Which proves that it`s as stupid as a bag of hammers,” the official says. How could Dumber realize that poker was too hot and black with soot underneath? Dumbbells, compact sheaves made of fine needles and irregular rhizome shapes can sometimes be seen (Fig. 40). In this scene from Dumb & Dumber, Lloyd tricks Harry into adding laxatives to his tea to sabotage a date. It seems silly to walk away from something I`m doing relatively well in if I`m not qualified to do something else, especially now. I thought I should stultify him for this folk-pop singer. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your essential guide to English language problems. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. They are not stupid to each other, I notice; we will be stupid ourselves, if we are labeled with furrins.
The stupidest way to secretly profit a campaign donor is to buy a building named after that contributor. Does it matter if Taylor Swift wants me to inflate my notoriety on the Internet by doing a stupid thing where I`m synced with her music? His guards are all blind, they are all ignorant: stupid dogs who cannot bark, see vain things, sleep and love dreams. It was only in moments of intense excitement that Dumber misplaced or omitted aspiration. Law enforcement simply said, “You know, she`s a stupid woman, and she`s the only one who was, and it`s just not that important.” Her friend immediately said, “Well, I talked to this stupid man.” Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press!.