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Ingenious vs. Stupid

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Ingeniousadjective

Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.

‘This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn't even know I had.’;

Stupidadjective

Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.

‘Because it's a big stupid jellyfish!’;

Ingeniousadjective

Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.

‘That is an ingenious model of the atom.’;

Stupidadjective

To the point of stupor.

‘Neurobiology bores me stupid.’;

Ingeniousadjective

Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.

‘He sent me an ingenious reply for an email.’;

Stupidadjective

(archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.

Ingeniousadjective

Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.

‘A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war.’; ‘Thou, king, send outFor torturers ingenious.’; ‘The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to trouble themselves.’;

Stupidadjective

(archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.

Ingeniousadjective

Proceeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.

‘Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill.’;

Stupidadjective

dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid

Ingeniousadjective

Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.

Stupidadjective

(slang) Amazing.

‘That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!’;

Ingeniousadjective

Mental; intellectual.

‘A course of learning and ingenious studies.’;

Stupidadjective

(slang) damn, annoying, darn

‘I fell over the stupid wire.’;

Ingeniousadjective

(used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action;

‘an imaginative use of material’; ‘the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman’; ‘an ingenious device’; ‘had an inventive turn of mind’; ‘inventive ceramics’;

Stupidadverb

Extremely.

‘My gear is stupid fly.’;

Ingeniousadjective

skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends;

‘cool prudence and sensitive selfishness along with quick perception of what is possible--these distinguish an adroit politician’; ‘came up with a clever story’; ‘an ingenious press agent’; ‘an ingenious scheme’;

Stupidnoun

A stupid person; a fool.

Ingeniousadjective

showing inventiveness and skill;

‘a clever gadget’; ‘the cunning maneuvers leading to his success’; ‘an ingenious solution to the problem’;

Stupidnoun

The state or condition of being stupid.

‘His stupid knows no bounds.’;

Stupidadjective

Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; - said of persons.

‘O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God!’; ‘With wild surprise,A moment stupid, motionless he stood.’;

Stupidadjective

Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; - said of things.

‘Observe what loads of stupid rhymesOppress us in corrupted times.’;

Stupidnoun

a person who is not very bright;

‘The economy, stupid!’;

Stupidadjective

lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity

Stupidadjective

in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock;

‘he had a dazed expression on his face’; ‘lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow’; ‘was stupid from fatigue’;

Stupidadjective

without much intelligence;

‘a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers’;

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