Estúpido in english
pronunciation: stupəd part of speech: adjective
estúpido = crazy ; dummy ; foolish ; silly ; mindless ; moron ; stupid ; daft ; mad ; dumb ; nuts ; witless ; bonehead ; boneheaded ; twit ; dolally tap ; dolally [do-lally] ; imbecile ; cretinous ; arsehole [asshole, -USA] ; brainless ; dimwit ; dim-witted [dimwitted] ; twat ; nonsensical ; mug ; berk ; prick ; cretin ; dumbbell ; dull-witted ; asinine ; lemon ; ditsy ; dits ; ditz ; ditzy ; airhead ; airheaded ; duffer ; schmuck ; schmo ; nonce ; moke ; twerp ; dweeb ; chump ; birdbrained ; birdbrain ; off + Posesivo + knocker ; off + Posesivo + rocker ; dork ; moonstruck ; plonker ; pumpkin head ; git ; prat ; wally ; goof ; goofball ; lame ; dink ; idiotic ; dense ; nitwit ; schlep [schlepp/shlep] ; jackass ; ass ; booby ; half-wit ; gumph ; gubbins ; dumbass ; feeble minded ; ninny ; ding-dong ; moronic ; sumph ; bozo ; pillock ; cluck ; tomfool ; imbecilic ; goon ; goop ; dorky ; nutcase ; dingbat ; dope.
Example: Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.Example: We are too prone to be dummy people by day, and thinking, articulate individuals only in the safety of home and leisure.Example: It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.Example: In conclusion, I am sure you all believe me to be either idealistic, unrealistic, radical, or just plain silly.Example: By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.Example: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Example: When any librarian is trying to find material on behalf of a user from a poor citation it leads to that librarian appearing slow and stupid to the user.Example: Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.Example: When J D Brown allowed the public of Islington to have open access to the books in the 1890s he was regarded by many of his colleagues as mad!.Example: Techniques such as the automatic detection of anaphora enable systems to appear to be intelligent rather than dumb.Example: I think some people would think my approach is nuts.Example: She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.Example: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.Example: That was a big boneheaded error.Example: Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.Example: Now I know this country of ours is totally dolally tap!.Example: The server has gone dolally by the looks of it.Example: The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.Example: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Example: Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.Example: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Example: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Example: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Example: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Example: Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.Example: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.Example: And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.Example: Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.Example: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.Example: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.Example: An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.Example: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense .Example: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a 'lemon and a retard'.Example: If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.Example: But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.Example: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.Example: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.Example: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.Example: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.Example: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.Example: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.Example: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.Example: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Example: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.Example: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Example: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Example: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.Example: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.Example: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.Example: Every firearm hast its pros and cons and anyone who tells you otherwise is off their knocker.Example: I find it fascinating how Bradley can be perfectly reasonable one moment, and off his rocker the next.Example: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Example: 'Moonstruck' has all the fun of movies about weddings: a reluctant groom, an overeager bride, and an emotionally distraught family = 'Moonstruck' has all the fun of movies about weddings: a reluctant groom, an overeager bride, and an emotionally distraught family.Example: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.Example: He loved to tease his daughter by calling her pumpkin head.Example: Very few of the people I know are such gits and I think the world would be better off without them.Example: To be honest I really don't have a problem ending relationships as I am such a prat that I usually end up losing good friends.Example: It's written in everyday language that even a wally like me can understand.Example: They're such goofs -- they were pretending like they forgot that the webcam was on.Example: Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goofball.Example: When I said hello he turned to his gaggle of friends and said 'look what the cat dragged in!' or something lame like that.Example: The only real unfairness in all of this is that a guy with such great oratory skills should turn out to be such a dink - total waste.Example: Marc basically can't believe that someone he is so close to would make such an idiotic purchase.Example: This usually causes more trouble for other people than himself, but because he's so dense, he never minds.Example: The very idea that any voter would take such nitwits at all seriously is the real horror story.Example: I wonder why she puts up with him, he's such a schlep!.Example: Well, maybe if you hadn't been such a jackass I wouldn't make fun of you.Example: Maybe they have it in for him because he's such an ass.Example: Why, one wonders, was such a booby entrusted with the fate of the British university system?.Example: Experts confirmed this week that the U.S. populace appears to have fallen under the spell of yet another pink-faced half-wit.Example: But I never know whether to believe Clare, she's such a gumph.Example: At some point along the way my camera died because I am such a gubbins I didn't charge my battery.Example: I could barely recognize the lumbering ape from behind his apron, but sure enough he was one of the dumbass jocks I went to high school with.Example: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from feeble minded, Imbecility, and Morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Example: It's not my fault that the ninnies you hired were such yellow-bellies!.Example: Local dad has begun to voice concerns that his 3-year-old son might be a real ding-dong.Example: We need someone equally as empty-headed and vapidly moronic as Elisabeth Hasselbeck to replace her.Example: 'Because he was just a sumph,' answered Gavinia, scornfully.Example: I can almost picture him with his face in his hands, shaking his head, wondering how in the world he managed to end up with such bozos.Example: The Internet isn't big enough to list all the pillocks in football.Example: I promise to be a devoted husband and never give you cause to regret marrying such a cluck.Example: Your mate is some kind of epic tomfool to imprison himself in his own vehicle.Example: But this male narrator would not in a million years say that woman is imbecilic by nature.Example: Only a country as warped as America could spawn such a goon.Example: If he hadn't been such a goop he wouldn't have reported the matter to the police.Example: If you are a dork and revel in the fact, you will want to know what clothing is dorky, so you can wear it.Example: There is no way that Americans are stupid enough to allow such a nutcase to become the most powerful man in the world.Example: Leave her alone, she's such a dingbat, things would only get worse trying to make sense out of anything she says.Example: They made fun of her, partly because she's such a dope and partly because she had a limp and a speech impediment.more:
» algo estúpido = no-brainer .
Example: Fortunately for you there are a few decisions that are real no-brainers.» como un estúpido = stupidly ; idiotically .
Example: Intelligent individuals often think that they cannot behave stupidly, but that is precisely what leads them down the garden path. Example: What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically.» estúpido de mierda = stupid git .
Example: 'Mindless, non-creative garbage,' 'stupid git,' and 'malodorous pervert' would all describe your friends adequately.» hacer el estúpido = faff (about/around) [Uso principalmente británico] ; dick about/around ; screw around ; fool around/about ; horse around/about ; clown around/about ; monkey around/about ; goof around/about ; lark around/about ; act + the goat .
Example: A new report says that we waste three hours a day faffing around, doing nothing in particular, pootling, dawdling, pottering, hanging about. Example: Sometimes the reason why we dick around is because there is too much stuff to do and it's difficult to focus. Example: But I've been screwing around for long enough; it's time to get back to work and earn some cash. Example: For those professional fools, the clowns, fooling around is serious business. Example: Angus has a lot of energy -- he is always horsing around with his foster brothers and sister. Example: Almost as if I were clowning around when more important things needed to be tended to. Example: The party is over but the monkeying around is just beginning. Example: Does any of your friends goof around and flash you their privates?. Example: This is me and some friends larking about while we were on holiday in Honicombe. Example: He was taking drink as a medication. He was not a just drunken fool, but he was acting the goat = Usaba el alcohol como medicación. No es que fuera un tonto borracho, sino que estaba haciendo el ganso.» hacerse el estúpido = dumb down [Generalmente, hacer que algo sea más fácil de entender por otros] ; act + dumb ; play it + dumb ; play it + stupid .
Example: The article 'Cataloguing electronic resources: wise up or dumb down?' argues that WWW search engines do a good job in impossibly difficult circumstances but that they do not provide enough information about a resource. Example: In fact, his success was directly attributable to how smart he was by acting dumb. Example: I knew what he meant but I played it dumb. Example: Playing it stupid isn't always a bad thing and can get you out of a lot of trouble.» lo suficientemente estúpido como para = dumb enough to .
Example: Currently I'm using Windows ME and I was dumb enough to follow the prompt to update Windows from the net.» persona estúpida = no-brainer .
Example: Fortunately for you there are a few decisions that are real no-brainers.» rubia estúpida = dumb blonde .
Example: There are millions of jokes about dumb blondes, but there is not so many jokes about cooperate executives.» ser de estúpidos + Verbo = be crazy to + Verbo .
Example: Of course, it's crazy to put down a deposit for a car when so much is still unknown.» ser estúpido = be off + Posesivo + rocker .
Example: Nobody with any sense whatsoever would voluntarily swim in the waters of San Francisco Bay unless they were off their rocker.» ser estúpido + Verbo = be crazy to + Verbo .
Example: Of course, it's crazy to put down a deposit for a car when so much is still unknown.» típica rubia estúpida = bimbo [Acrónimo 'body impressive, body optional'] .
Example: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.» viejo estúpido = old coot .
Example: Cuz they know that old coot constantly contradicts himself and makes no sense whatsoever.» volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker ; get + silly ; turn + stupid .
Example: I mean everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but they went off their rocker embracing our enemies. Example: Empathy is all well and good but this is getting silly. Example: When the fuck did everyone turn stupid?.