stupidity
/stuˈpɪdɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I suppose you can put it down to gross stupidity, but that's not much of an excuse."
- "And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good."
- "Jimmy's stupidity cost him his car."
- "8. They require that crass stupidities shall not be played upon the reader as “the craft of the woodsman, the delicate art of the forest,” by either the author or the people in the tale."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: stupiditātem, stupiditās
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /stuˈpɪdɪti/
- British English: /stjuːˈpɪdɪti/