blödsinnig
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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[edit]blöd + -sinnig, formed in the 17th century with the meaning “mentally impaired”, which is no longer valid.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)
Audio: (file) Audio: (file) - IPA(key): [ˈbløːtzɪnɪk] (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio: (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
Declension
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Derived terms
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[edit]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