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stulty

stulty adjective: foolish; silly, stupid.

Adjective

stulty (comparative more stulty, superlative most stulty)

  1. (rare) Foolish; silly, stupid.
    • Shal fyre ben blamed for it brende a foole naturelly by his own stulty wytte in sterynge?c. 1384, Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love
    • "[…] I was a Jamie too, before that, and Port Jamison is a stulty, priggy town on a planet that's the same."2012, George R. R. Martin, Dreamsongs, volume 1, page 284

Forms of stulty

comparativemore stulty
superlativemost stulty

Origin of stulty

From Middle English stulty, probably from Latin stultus (“foolish”) + -y.

Questions about stulty

What does stulty mean?
Stulty means foolish; silly, stupid.
What part of speech is stulty?
Stulty is an adjective.

Words near stulty in the dictionary

  1. stultiloquently
  2. stultiloquies
  3. stultiloquy
  4. stulting
  5. stults
  6. stulty
  7. Stultz
  8. Stultzes
  9. stum
  10. Stumbaugh
  11. Stumbaughs

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