Stupider

Adjective

1. stupider

   (comparative of stupid)
• 1928, w:Aldous Huxley, w, You people aren't stupider than anyone else. Not naturally stupider.
• 1985, w, Conversations with Walker Percy‎, Freud's disciples have been even more stupid about "creative writing". At least Freud had the good sense to know when to shut up, as he did in Dostoevski's case. But stupider still is the more recent Hemingway machismo number.
• 2002, Elizabeth George, A Traitor to Memory‎, "You'd be stupider
  — "More stupid," she said.
  — stupider," he repeated, "to find yourself dis'tangling your way out of a charge of obstruction in a police enquiry.

Usage notes

More common in American English. Less common in British English.

Occasional target of prescriptivists, despite common usage.

Anagrams

• disputer
• purdiest