STUPID
STUPID, adjective [Latin, to be stupefied, properly to stop. See Stop.]1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish.O that men should be so stu...
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STUPIDITY
STUPIDITY, noun [Latin] Extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
STUPIDLY
STUPIDLY, adverb With extreme dullness; with suspension or inactivity of understanding; sottishly; absurdly; without the exercise of reason or judgment.
STUPIDNESS
STUPIDNESS, noun Stupidity.
STUPOR
STUPOR, noun [Latin]1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense; numbness; as the stupor of a limb.2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; hee...
STUPRATE
STUPRATE, verb transitive [Latin] To ravish; to debauch.
STUPRATION
STUPRATION, noun Rape; violation of chastity by force.
STURDILY
STURDILY, adverb [from sturdy.] Hardily; stoutly; lustily.
STURDINESS
STURDINESS, noun [from sturdy.]1. Stoutness; hardiness; as the sturdiness of a school boy.2. Brutal strength.
STURDY
STURDY, adjective [G., connected with; a stub.]1. Hardy; stout; foolishly obstinate; implying coarseness or rudeness.This must be done, and I would fain see mortal so sturdy as ...
STURGEON
STURGEON, noun [Low Latin, G.] A large fish of the genus Acipenser, caught in large rivers. Its flesh is valued for food.
STURK
STURK, noun A young ox or heifer.
STUTTER
STUTTER, verb intransitive [G., that is, to stop. Stut is not used.] To stammer; to hesitate in uttering words.
STUTTERER
STUTTERER, noun A stammerer.
STUTTERING
STUTTERING, participle present tense Stammering; speaking with hesitation.
STUTTERINGLY
STUTTERINGLY, adverb With stammering.
STY
STY, noun1. A pen or inclosure for swine.2. A place of bestial debauchery.To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty3. An inflamed tumor on the edge of the eyelid.STY, verb transiti...
STYCA
STYCA, noun A Saxon copper coin of the lowest value.
STYGIAN
STYGIAN, adjective [Latin] Pertaining to Styx, fabled by the ancients to be a river of hell over which the shades of the dead passed, or the region of the dead; hence, hellish; ...
STYLE
STYLE, noun [Latin, Gr., a column, a pen or bodkin; from the root of the Teutonic stellen, to set or place.]1. Manner of writing with regard to language, or the choice and arran...
STYLED
STYLED, participle passive Named; denominated; called.
STYLET
STYLET, noun [from style.] A small poniard or dagger.
STYLIFORM
STYLIFORM, adjective [style and form.] Like a style, pin or pen.
STYLING
STYLING, participle present tense Calling; denominating.
STYLITE
STYLITE, noun [Gr., a column.] In ecclesiastical history, the Stylites were a sect of solitaries, who stood motionless on columns or pillars for the exercise of their patience.
STYLOBATION
STYLOBATION, noun The pedestal of a column.
STYLOID
STYLOID, adjective [Latin, Gr.] Having some resemblance to a style or pen; as the styloid process of the temporal bone.