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单词 stupidity
释义
stupidity
noun[U]
uk
/stjuːˈpɪd.ə.ti/us
/stuːˈpɪd.ə.t̬i/
C2
thestateof beingsillyorunwise:
愚蠢
amoment/actof stupidity一时的愚蠢／愚蠢的举动
Her stupidity is beyondbeliefsometimes.有时候她蠢得令人难以置信。
It wassheerstupidity torefuseat thepricethey wereoffering.他们出那样的价钱还不卖，真是愚蠢透顶。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Stupid and silly behaviour
  • antics
  • buffoonery
  • dottiness
  • dumbness
  • fatuousness
  • foolishness
  • frivolousness
  • fruit loopery
  • game
  • idiocy
  • lark
  • ludicrousness
  • madness
  • mindlessness
  • oafishness
  • obtuseness
  • screwball
  • the games (that) people playidiom
  • tomfoolery
  • vacuousness
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(Definition ofstupidityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstupidity

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Rather than directly indict the fashionable elite, critics of the bearing rein were quick to attribute its prevalence to working class cruelty andstupidity.
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The histrionics of the lead guitar, the excesses of the drummer, and thestupidityof the bass player have to mix on equal footing.
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The letter asserted that ' ' a very small band of hoodlums cannot be allowed to upset our economy by their childish acts ofstupidity.
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The council persists in the view that the applicants'stupidityis to blame.
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The reason, he hypothesizes, is that excess food produces moisture that causes obesity and, as the moisture rises to the brain,stupidity.
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This was ridiculous; he was going to die fromstupidity.
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Sometimes his shyness was even interpreted asstupidity, an error that heightened his feelings of inferiority.
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Most of the moral literature perceives youth as the negative pole of adulthood and old age and describes it in the most negative terms : ofstupidity, sleep, intoxication and perversion.
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About 30 % could not supply any 'explanation' for their conduct, and admitted tostupidity, rather than to negligence, when we suggested that they may have been careless.
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Young men, then, are associated with foolishness, their gaiety equivalent tostupidity, while adults are associated with wisdom, humility and spiritual perfection (temimut).
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In several key instances, monolingualism is associated with ignorance, and individuals are described as being in a state of "monolingualstupidity" (p. 644) or "suffering from monolingualstupidity" (p. 662).
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Rassundari's account of her childhood projects an image of total innocence verging onstupidity.
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But to me they were tragedies, monuments to ourstupidity, our lack of planning and lack of land resources.
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Unfortunately, liberalism of this kind is apt to verge onstupidity, and such openness of mind really means emptiness.
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That was an act ofstupidityand environmental vandalism.
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