blödsinnig
German edit
Etymology edit
blöd + -sinnig, formed in the 17th century with the meaning “mentally impaired”, which is no longer valid.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): [ˈbløːtzɪnɪç] (standard)
(file) (file) - IPA(key): [ˈbløːtzɪnɪk] (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
(file) - Hyphenation: blöd‧sin‧nig
Adjective edit
blödsinnig (strong nominative masculine singular blödsinniger, comparative blödsinniger, superlative am blödsinnigsten)
- stupid, idiotic, feeble-minded
- Synonyms: unsinnig, schwachsinnig
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Further reading edit
- “blödsinnig” in Duden online
- “blödsinnig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (2002) “blöde”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 24th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN