Stupid vs. Idiot

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

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

To the point of stupor.

Example: ‘Neurobiology bores me stupid.’;

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

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

dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid

(slang) Amazing.

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

(slang) damn, annoying, darn

Example: ‘I fell over the stupid wire.’;

Extremely.

Example: ‘My gear is stupid fly.’;

A stupid person; a fool.

The state or condition of being stupid.

Example: ‘His stupid knows no bounds.’;

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

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

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

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

a person who is not very bright;

Example: ‘The economy, stupid!’;

lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity

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

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

without much intelligence;

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

(pejorative) A person of low general intelligence.

(pejorative) A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.

A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.

(uncommon) idiotic, stupid

A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

Example: ‘St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons.’;

An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.

Example: ‘Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis.’;

A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool. In a former classification of mentally retarded people, idiot designated a person whose adult level of intelligence was equivalent to that of a three-year old or younger; this corresponded with an I.Q. level of approximately 25 or less.

Example: ‘Life . . . is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.’;

A fool; a simpleton; - a term of reproach.

Example: ‘Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame?’;

a person of subnormal intelligence

a stupid person.

a person of low intelligence.

An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person. 'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers.