stolidus: stultus (stolidus, of one who is defective in judgement; stultus, silly, inconsiderate; both also of things): ineptus (imprudent, inconsistent; of persons or things): fatuus (silly; only of persons): desipiens: insipiens (mad): inconsultus: imprudens (inconsiderate, imprudent): amens: demens (without understanding): vecors: socors (senseless): bardus: tardus (sloio in intellect): stupidus (dull). (The words are found in this connection and order.) stupidus et tardus; hebes (ad intelligendum, dull, heavy): hebetatus: retusus: obtusus: brutus (like a brute animal, without reason: ingenium retusum; opposed to acutum, Cic., Div., 1, 36): Stupid as a post, stipes: truncus: stupid as a beast, aeque hebes ac pecus (Cic., De Div., 1, 22, extr. from a poet): he made his pupils half as stupid again as he found them, discipulos dimidio reddidit stultiores quam acceperat.