stupids
- 1Plural of stupid. Informal and insulting; rare.
He writes off all his critics as stupids, but several of them are experts.
Calling people stupids in a meeting never wins anyone over.
Note
The -s here is the ordinary plural, and it attaches only to the countable noun for a fool: two stupids are two foolish people. The colloquial mass noun meaning stupidity takes no plural. So when the same spelling turns up after "the", as in the humorous "attack of the stupids", it names a bout of foolishness, not a crowd of fools.
- 2Foolishness, or a particular instance of foolish behavior.
He blamed a sudden attack of the stupids for sending the text to the wrong group.
After her third silly error, she just laughed off the stupids and started over.
Similarfoolishness, silliness, idiocy, dumbness
Note
Slang that treats foolishness as a passing ailment: you have, or get, an attack of the stupids, much as you might get the giggles. It always takes "the" and is meant humorously. That makes it well suited to owning up to your own blunder, like locking yourself out of the house. Aimed at someone else, it can sound flippant.
stupids is a form of stupid
stupid, noun: A foolish or unintelligent person. Full entry
- Forms
- stupidstupids plural
- Spelling
- stupid → stupids: add -s
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