The Difference Between Dumb and Stupid
July 12, 2012 1:59 PM

How do you differentiate between dumb people and stupid people?

Obviously I can look up both words in the dictionary. I mean in terms of common usage as you know it and how you use it personally.

Examples welcome...
posted by willie11 to Writing & Language (2 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Without some more specific framework to go on this is basically chatfilter. -- cortex

Unanswerable except as personal anecdotal preferences/guidelines.
posted by edgeways at 2:01 PM on July 12, 2012


In common usage I would make very little distinction. Possibly "stupid" people are somewhat stupider than "dumb" people, but that's about it.
posted by Justinian at 2:02 PM on July 12, 2012


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