Retarded

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Often Offensive Affected with mental retardation.
  • adj. Occurring or developing later than desired or expected; delayed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of retard.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. having a limited or below normal mental ability; same as mentally retarded; -- used especially in relation to performance in academic tasks.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development
  • n. people collectively who are mentally retarded
  • Equivalent
    feeble-minded    simple-minded    moronic    imbecilic    delayed    backward    simple    cretinous    slow-witted    idiotic   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    people   
    Verb Stem
    retard   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bombarded    carded    discarded    disregarded    guarded    larded    regarded    unguarded