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idiot
[ id-ee-uht ]
noun
- Informal. an utterly foolish or senseless person:
If you think you can wear that outfit to a job interview and get hired, you're an idiot!
Synonyms: , , , , ,
- Psychology. (no longer in technical use; considered offensive) a person of the lowest order in a former and discarded classification of intellectual disability, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25.
idiot
/ ˈɪɪə /
noun
- a person with severe mental retardation
- a foolish or senseless person
Other Word Forms
- ··dz· [id-ee-, ot, -ik], adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of idiot1
Word History and Origins
Origin of idiot1
Example Sentences
He swore and called himself an "idiot" over the radio to his team in the immediate aftermath of the accident.
He swore over the radio that he was an "idiot", but was unhurt.
Boeing’s plight is just one aspect of a White House tariff policy that increasingly resembles, as Shakespeare might have put it, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
In 2005, however, he said he was "fed up with the idiots" adding there was an "ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who greenlight the movies."
Their job is to paint every dumb decision made by Donald Trump as the work of a secret genius who is only pretending to be a half-literate idiot.
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