idiot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English idiote, ydiote, from Old French idiote (later idiot), from Latin idiota, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private”). Doublet of idiota. By surface analysis, idi- + -ot.
Inflected forms:
form: idiots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: idjit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: idget
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: eejit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Ireland
Scotland
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A person of low general intelligence.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Only an idiot would fail this exam.
After failing a hat-trick of exams, the teacher called him an idiot.
gloss: A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: He thought people who don't like cricket are idiots. He later got into fights with people who like football.
We think that people who cycle without a helmet are idiots.
“He’s an idiot – in terms of saying that. Everybody knows this. Everybody knows it. Nobody doubts it,” Biden said.
“One of the things that you write so beautifully, and your stuff is so fun to read, but you write about Trump, quote, ‘The way that you build a truly vicious nationalist movement is to wed a relatively small core of belligerent idiots to a much larger group of opportunists and spineless fellow travelers whose primary function is to turn a blind eye to things,’” Kennedy said, reading Taibbi’s own writing back to him.
gloss: A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Idiots were thought to be peculiarly under the care of the Deity, and it was believed that those who treated them kindly would be blessed.
It is an offence for a man to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile.
Synonyms: addle-brain
addlehead
addle pate
airhead
baboon
beanbrain
beetlebrain
beetlehead
berk
bimbo
birdbrain
blockhead
blubberbrain
bonehead
Boeotian
boob
bozo
brainlet
brickhead
bubblehead
bubble brain
bufflehead
buffoon
Charlie
chowderhead
chucklehead
chump
cittern-head
clod
clodpate
clot
clown
crackhead
cretin
cuckoo
deadhead
dimbo
dim bulb
dimbus
dimwit
dingbat
ding dong
dingleberry
dingwad
dip
dipstick
doldrum
dolt
donut
doodle
doof
doofoid
doofus
dope
dork
drivel
drongo
drool bucket
dullard
dumb bunny
dumbbell
dumb cluck
dumbhead
dumble
dumbling
dumbnut
dumbo
dummkopf
dummy
dunce
dunderhead
dunderpate
eejit
fathead
featherbrain
fenderhead
fleabrain
fool
fopdoodle
galoot
gimboid
gomer
gonk
goober
goof
goofball
goofy
goon
goose
goosecap
gorbuson
gudgeon
halfwit
ha'porth
hammerhead
idiot
ignoramus
imbecile
inbred
jackaninny
jellybrain
jerk
juggins
jughead
knothead
knucklehead
lackwit
lamebrain
log
loggerhead
lummox
lunk
lunkhead
maroon
meatball
meathead
mental midget
mome
momo
mongoloid
mongtard
monkey
moron
mouth breather
muggins
mushhead
muttonhead
mutt
nimrod
nincompoop
ninny
ninnyhammer
nit
nitwit
noddy
noodlehead
numbskull
oaf
peabrain
peagoose
pillock
pigwidgeon
pinhead
plank
plonker
prat
put
putz
retard
sap
saphead
schmo
silly
simp
simpleton
smooth brain
snapperhead
sot
space cadet
spanner
stupe
stupid
stupid-head
tard
thickhead
thickskull
thicko
tomfool
tonto
toolbox
tosspot
turkey
twit
wally
wantwit
wazzer
wazzock
witless wonder
yo-yo
zany
Vulgar:
ass
assclown
asshat
asshead
asstard
asswipe
buttbreath
dildo
dipshit
donkey dick
Alternative spelling of dumbass.
dumbfuck
dumbfucker
dumbshit
farthead
fuck-knuckle
fucktard
fuckwit
jackass
peckerhead
shitbrain
shithead
shitneck
shitwit
twat
Antonyms: genius
intelligent person
Related words: idiocy
idiom
idiosyncratic
idiotic
idiotically
idiot savant
useful idiot
foolish
insane
mad person
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 450a. Absence of intellect
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 499. Imbecility
Derived words: cidiot
covidiot
dipshidiot
Floridiot
idiocracy
IDiot
idiotacy
idiot board
idiot box
idiot card
idiotcy
idioted
idiot end
idiotery
idiotese
idiotfest
idiot girl
idiotic
idioticy
idiotish
idiotism
idiotist
idiotize
idiot light
idiotlike
idiotly
idiot mittens
idiotness
idiotor
idiotorial
idiot-proof
idiotry
idiot sandwich
idiot-savant
idiot sheet
idiot stick
idiot string
idiot tape
idiot tax
Idiotville
kiddiot
mediot
neo-idiot
pyramidiot
radiot
shidiot
shitiot
televidiot
twidiot
useful idiot
vidiot
village idiot
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