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[MrHulot]

Looks like Kazinsky is the stupidest of all beacuse “stupider” is a word

Merle Tenney, Language Technology Consultant

Written 22 May 2012

 

Stupider and stupidest are perfectly fine words, and are recognized as such by a number of dictionaries.  That said, more stupid and most stupid, are also acceptable, so you can use either form.

BTW, when you form a comparative by adding an -er suffix, such as stupider, you have an inflectional comparative or synthetic comparative.  When you form a comparative by preposing the word more, such as more stupid, you have a periphrastic comparative.

The particular example of stupider was used by Ammon Shea in the New York Times "On Language" column to illustrate how to deal with ignorant pedants that insist on enforcing dubious usage rules:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/0...

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