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moronic

moronic

34 8.4
Acting very foolish and making bad choices
  • adjective
  • /məˈrɒnɪk/
  • Slur
translation icon : idiota
  • That was a moronic decision, and it cost us dearly.

That just tells you how moronic and stupid she is because she knows better.

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Examples

  • Petra used the memory of Freshwater's moronic surprise to get herself smiling as she completed the report.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • It is the most moronic suggestion I have ever seen and folks here it is.

  • That just tells you how moronic and stupid she is because she knows better.

  • But it is moronic and you need to really, really check yourself.

  • You should have lunch with them and then report back and tell us every stupid, moronic thing they said.

  • Your business philosophy is to take money from your extremely wealthy father and waste it on moronic ideas.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Of all the moronic things, to make a snap judgment based on nothing.

  • Why would they do something so fiendishly clever and so moronic at the same time?

    Blog text (5)
  • Your defense of Coulter is as moronic as your faith in Palin's intelligence.

    Blog text (1)
  • Now we have slipped from silly to moronic in the gloom and doom brigade.

    Blog text (7)

Synonyms

idiotic
vsmoronic
  • Offensive
115 4.4

Very silly and showing bad judgment

is an older offensive label tied to a specific mental age
buffoonish
vsmoronic
1 8.3

Silly and exaggerated in a way that looks like a clown

is an older offensive label about low mental age not about manner
duncical
vsmoronic
  • Offensive
9.9

Very foolish and showing little sense

refers to an older offensive label linked to mental age

Antonyms

758 2.1

Showing good judgment from experience

507 3.4

Able to think, understand, and learn new things

How Foolish

stupid
  • Offensive
1.0
moronic
  • Slur
34 8.4
foolish
505 1.3
silly
976 1.0

Surface Forms

moronic positive

Morphology

moronic = moron (transparent) = moron + ic

The adjective is regularly formed from the noun 'moron' with the productive suffix '-ic', yielding 'characteristic of or like a moron'.

Etymology

Moronic comes from the Greek root moros, which means 'foolish', and the ending -ic means 'related to', so it shares the same root as the English word moron. So moronic means 'very foolish' or 'like a moron', but it used to be a medical label and is now offensive, so use it carefully.