imbecile
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8.8
- noun
- /ˈɪmbəˌsɪl/
- Slur
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imbécil
- The doctors, you know, who told Bobby he was gonna die and that nothing could be done, they were imbeciles.
- a generation of imbeciles
- three generations of imbeciles
And that anyone who objects to that is an imbecile and bigoted and a little Englander.
- And that anyone who objects to that is an imbecile and bigoted and a little Englander.
- OK, No, you imbecile, take the eraser.
- That leaves you with five good weekends and these absolute imbeciles think that they should take your fucking weekend from you.
- It's too degraded an imbecile to know any real joy.
- Said did a did a podcast by some imbecile or some word like that.
- I mean, look, look, look kind of, you know, like you're just just, you know, and like an imbecile.
- And I, I point out this example of the Queen's first cousins who were officially diagnosed as imbeciles.
Examples
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She said, would somebody please stop these imbeciles from running around?
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Why should my tax dollars go to pay for some imbecile's house in the Midwest?
Blog text (14) -
That imbecile will only get in the way.
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Like, even on this show, there were two huge, stupid, imbecile humans.
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So sad it's hard to trust people, thanks to the imbeciles out there in the world.
Blog text (9) -
Who, then, were the famous "three generations of imbeciles," and why should they still compel our interest?
Academic text (2002) -
He's a drunk, he's an imbecile.
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He's an imbecile.
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To vote without debating is perilous, but to debate and never vote is imbecile. -- Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
Academic text (2003) -
That imbecile will only get in the way during the important meeting.
Synonyms
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1.2
A person who acts very stupidly, used as an insult
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6.0
A person who is seen as stupid or makes simple mistakes
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9.9
A rude name for a person who is stupid and annoying
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7.9
A person who acts silly and not very smart
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1.1
A person who is not very smart and often makes bad choices
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8.9
A rude word for a person who seems very stupid
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7.7
A person who is not very smart
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6.1
A person who learns slowly or has trouble understanding
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6.8
A person who is not very smart and often acts without thinking
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9.2
A person who behaves foolishly and who others often insult with this word
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8.9
A person who is very stupid
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9.9
A rude name for a person who is very silly or not smart
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9.8
A person who behaves in a silly or foolish way
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8.4
A rude word for someone who is not smart
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9.3
A person who is not very smart
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8.7
A person who is not very smart
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A person who is not intelligent and often makes poor choices
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9.8
A rude word for a person who is very stupid
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9.9
A person who is very stupid or foolish
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9.9
A person who is silly and not very clever
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9.9
A person who is not very intelligent
An insulting name for a stupid person
A rude name for a person who is slow to understand
An insulting word for a rude or stupid person
A person who is not very smart
A very rude and annoying person who treats others badly
A very rude name used to insult someone who does something very stupid
Very stupid and not able to think clearly
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Imbecile comes from the Latin imbecillus, where in- means 'not' and the rest comes from a word for 'staff' or 'stick', so it originally meant 'without a staff' or 'weak'. It later described mental weakness in medicine and today it is an offensive word for someone seen as very foolish.