Synonyms of the word

changeling

• n. (mythology) In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology, an infant of a fairy, sprite or troll that the…
• n. (informal, rare) An infant secretly exchanged with another infant; swapling.
• n. (science fiction and fantasy) An organism which can change shape to mimic others.
• n. (obsolete) A simpleton; an idiot.
• n. (obsolete) One apt to change; a waverer.

child

• n. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal…
• n. (with possessive) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (with possessive) One's descendants, regardless of age.
• n. (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly.

cretin

• n. (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
• n. (pejorative) An idiot.

fry

• v. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
• v. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
• n. (usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried strip of potato.
• n. (Ireland, Britain) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
• n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
• n. Young fish; fishlings.
• n. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
• n. (Britain dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
• n. A kind of sieve.
• n. A drain.

half-wit

• n. A stupid or inept person.

idiot

• n. (pejorative) A person of low general intelligence.
• n. (obsolete, medicine, psychology) A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the…

imbecile

• n. (obsolete) A person with limited mental capacity who can perform tasks and think only like a young child,…
• n. (pejorative) A fool, an idiot.
• adj. (dated) Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; especially, mentally weak.

kid

• n. A young goat.
• n. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
• n. Kidskin.
• n. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
• n. A young antelope.
• n. (informal) a child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
• n. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
• n. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
• n. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular decade or area.
• n. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (used in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
• n. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

minor

• adj. Of little significance or importance.
• adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the…
• adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
• n. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities…
• n. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who…
• n. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix.
• n. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
• n. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
• v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

moron

• n. (informal, derogatory) A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.
• n. (dated, originally) A person of borderline intelligence in the former classification of mental retardation,…

nestling

• n. A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
• n. (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
• v. present participle of nestle.
• n. The act of one who nestles.

nipper

• n. One who, or that which, nips.
• n. (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
• n. (slang) A child.
• n. (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
• n. (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
• n. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
• n. (obsolete) A satirist.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
• n. A fish, the cunner.
• n. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
• n. The claws of a crab or lobster.
• n. (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

retard

• n. Retardation; delay.
• n. (slang, offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation.
• n. (slang, offensive) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn.
• v. (transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in…
• v. (transitive) To put off; to postpone.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
• v. (intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To stay back.

shaver

• n. One who shaves.
• n. A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
• n. A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
• n. (slang, obsolete) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
• n. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
• n. (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.

simple

• adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
• adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
• adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
• adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
• adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
• adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
• adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
• n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
• n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
• n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
• n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
• n. (weaving) A drawloom.
• n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

simpleton

• n. (pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.

tiddler

• n. A small person.
• n. (Britain, informal) A small fish, especially a stickleback.

tike

• n. Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog).
• n. A boorish person.
• n. Archaic form of tick (a kind of arthropod).

tyke

• n. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
• n. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
• n. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
• n. (Britain, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic.

youngster

• n. A young person.