Imbecile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A stupid or silly person; a dolt.
  • n. A person whose mental acumen is well below par.
  • n. A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
  • adj. Stupid; silly.
  • adj. Well below par in mental acumen.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person with limited mental capacity who can perform tasks and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five to seven-year-old child.
  • n. A fool, an idiot.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded.
  • n. One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind; -- sometimes used as a pejorative term.
  • n. A person with a degree of mental retardation between that of an idiot and a moron; in a former classification of mentally retarded person, it applied to a person with an adult mental age of from four to eith years, and an I.Q. of from 26 to 50.
  • v. To weaken; to make imbecile.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Without physical strength; feeble; impotent; helpless.
  • Mentally feeble: fatuous; having the mental faculties undeveloped or greatly impaired. See imbecility.
  • Marked by mental feebleness or incapacity; indicating weakness of mind; inane; stupid: as, imbecile efforts; an imbecile speech.
  • Synonyms and Foolish, driveling, idiotic. See debility.
  • n. One who is imbecile.
  • To make imbecile; weaken.
  • To embezzle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person of subnormal intelligence
  • adj. having a mental age of three to seven years
  • Equivalent
    retarded   
    Cross Reference
    foolish   
    Form
    imbecilic    imbecility   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    feeble-minded    weak    idiotic    feeble    impotent    weaken    defective    driveler    idiot    mooncalf   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    idiot    simpleton    buffoon    coward    blackguard    oaf    fool    dullard    madman    duffer