Imbecile
21imbecile — An obsolete term for a subclass of mental retardation or the individual classified therein. [L. imbecillus, weak, silly] * * * im·be·cile im bə səl, .sil n usu offensive a person affected with moderate mental retardation imbecile or im·be·cil·ic …
22imbecile — See moron. See moron, idiot, imbecile …
23imbecile — [16] Etymologically imbecile means ‘without support’, hence ‘weak’. It came via French from Latin imbēcillus, a compound adjective formed from the prefix in ‘not’ and an unrecorded *bēcillum, a diminutive variant of baculum ‘stick’ (from which… …
24imbecile — I. a. 1. Weak, feeble, infirm, helpless, decrepit. 2. Foolish, witless, drivelling, idiotic, fatuous. II. n. 1. Dotard, feeble person. 2. Idiot, natural, congenital imbecile …
25imbecile — noun (C) 1 someone who is very stupid or behaves very stupidly: He looked at me as if I was a complete imbecile. 2 old fashioned a word meaning someone who is mentally ill, now considered offensive imbecilic / Imbi sILIk/ adjective …
26imbecile — /ˈɪmbəsil / (say imbuhseel), / saɪl/ (say suyl) noun 1. a silly person; a fool. 2. Psychiatry Obsolescent a person of defective mentality above the grade of idiocy. –adjective 3. relating to or like an imbecile. 4. silly; absurd. 5. Obsolete… …
27imbecile — [16] Etymologically imbecile means ‘without support’, hence ‘weak’. It came via French from Latin imbēcillus, a compound adjective formed from the prefix in ‘not’ and an unrecorded *bēcillum, a diminutive variant of baculum ‘stick’ (from which… …
28imbecile — imbecilely, adv. /im beuh sil, seuhl/ or, esp. Brit., / seel /, n. 1. Psychol. a person of the second order in a former classification of mental retardation, above the level of idiocy, having a mental age of seven or eight years and an… …
29imbecile — noun A fool, an idiot …
30imbecile — Synonyms and related words: ament, amputee, anemic, apish, arrested, asinine, ass, asthenic, babbling, backward, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blithering, bloodless, born fool, brainless, buffoonish, burbling, chicken, clot, cockeyed,… …
