Synonyms of the word idiot


IDIOTCHANGELING - CRETIN - HALF-WIT - IMBECILE - MORON - RETARD - SIMPLE - SIMPLETON

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…

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.

cretin

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

half-wit

  • n. A stupid or inept person.

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.

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,…

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.

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.

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