глупый

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *glupъ. Cognate with Bulgarian глупав (glupav), Serbo-Croatian глу̏пав/glȕpav, Slovak hlúpy, Slovene glup. Non-Slavic cognates include Old Norse glópr (“idiot”) (compare Icelandic glópur). According to Erich Berneker and Uhlenbeck the Slavic words were borrowed from a Germanic source, which is contested by Vasmer.

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глу́пый • (glúpyj) (comparative (по)глупе́е or (по)глупе́й, adverb глу́по, diminutive глу́пенький, augmentative глупю́щий)

1. silly, stupid, foolish

   Synonyms: тупо́й (tupój, “stupid”), неу́мный (neúmnyj, “foolish”), неразу́мный (nerazúmnyj, “unreasonable”), безу́мный (bezúmnyj, “insane”), слабоу́мный (slaboúmnyj, “feeble-minded”)

   Antonym: неглу́пый (neglúpyj)

2. inane, irrational, unreasonable

   Synonyms: неу́мный (neúmnyj), неразу́мный (nerazúmnyj)

глу́пый • (glúpyj) m anim (genitive глу́пого, nominative plural глу́пые, genitive plural глу́пых, feminine глу́пая)

1. blockhead, dolt, numskull

   Synonym: дура́к (durák)

• Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 309
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глупый”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress