About The Word Idiot
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Idiot Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Idiot?
[n] a person of subnormal intelligence
Synonyms | Synonyms for Idiot: changeling | cretin | half-wit | imbecile | moron | retard Related Terms | Find terms related to Idiot: alcoholic | aliene | alternating personality | ament | antisocial personality | ass | bedlamite | borderline case | born fool | clot | congenital idiot | crackbrain | crackpot | cretin | defective | dement | demoniac | disordered personality | disturbed personality | donkey | double personality | drug user | dual personality | dullard | dullhead | dumbbell | dummkopf | dummy | emotionally unstable personality | energumen | escapist | fanatic | flake | fou | golem | half-wit | hostile personality | hypochondriac | hypochondriast | ignoramus | imaginary invalid | imbecile | immature personality | inadequate personality | inferior personality | jackass | jerk | jester | juggins | kook | loon | loony | lunatic | madman | malade imaginaire | maladjusted personality | maniac | mentally defective personality | meshuggenah | mongoloid idiot | moral insanity | moron | motley | multiple personality | natural | natural idiot | natural-born fool | neuropath | neurotic | neurotic personality | nincompoop | ninny | noncompos | nut | paranoid personality | perverse personality | phrenetic | psychoneurotic | psychopath | psychopathic personality | psychotic | psychotic personality | raving lunatic | schizoid | schizoid personality | screwball | seclusive personality | sexual psychopath | shut-in personality | simp | simpleton | sociopath | split personality | stupid | tomfool | valetudinarian | valetudinary | weak personality | weirdo | zany Idiot In Webster's Dictionary \Id"i*ot\, n. [F. idiot, L. idiota an uneducated,
ignorant, ill-informed person, Gr. ?, also and orig., a
private person, not holding public office, fr. ? proper,
peculiar. See {Idiom}.]
1. A man in private station, as distinguished from one
holding a public office. [Obs.]
St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of
Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all
idiots or private persons. --Jer. Taylor.
2. An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished
from the educated; an ignoramus. [Obs.]
Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people,
and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected,
despised, and persecuted even to death by the high
priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis. --C.
Blount.
3. A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual
powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental;
commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a
natural fool; a natural; an innocent.
Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound
and fury, Signifying nothing. --Shak.
4. A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.
Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame? --Chaucer.
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