Meaning of idiot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person of low general intelligence.
   derogatory
2. A proponent of intelligent design.
   derogatory, slang
3. A person of low general intelligence
4. One deficient in judgment and good sense:ass, fool, imbecile, jackass, mooncalf, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, simple, simpleton, softhead, tomfool.
5. A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
   derogatory
6. A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool
7. dwaasheid بلاهَه، عُتْه، حَماقَه идиотщина idiotia idiotství der Schwachsinn idioti ηλιθιότηταidiotez idiootsus حماقت idioottimaisuus imbécillité אִידְיוֹטִיות जड़ता, मूर्खता idiotizam hülyeség ketololan heimska, bjánaskapur; fávitastig idiozia 白痴 백치, 정신 박약 idiotizmas, silpnaprotystė idiotisms; muļķība kebodohan idiotie, idiootheid idioti, lav intelligens niedorozwój umysłowy فكرى كمزورى چې ددماغ دنيمګړى او غير طبيعى ودى په اثر پېدا شوى وى، حماقت، پڅوالى ( دفكر idiotia imbecilitate идиотизм h...
8. 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.
   obsolete
9. 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
10. idioties, onnosel أبْلَه، أحْمَق идиотичен idiota idiotský idiotisch idiotisk ηλίθιοςidiota idiootlik احمقانه idioottimainen idiot אִידיוֹטִי मूर्ख idiotski, glup hülye tolol heimskulegur idiota まぬけな 어리석은 idiotiškas idiotisks; muļķīgs bodoh idiootidiotisk, fjolletidiotyczny احمقانه idiota idiot идиотский idiotský idiotski idiotski idiotisk โง่เง่า ahmakça, aptalca 愚蠢的，低能的 ідіотський, безглуздий احمقانہ khờ dại 白痴的
11. Idiotic, stupid
12. idioties بِحَماقَه идиотично estupidamente idiotsky idiotisch idiotiskt ηλίθια idiotamente, estúpidamente idiootlikult بطور ابلهانه idioottimaisesti idiotement בְּטִפּשוּת मूर्खता से idiotsko ostobán secara tolol heimskulega idiotamente 愚かにも 아주 바보스럽게 idiotiškai idiotiski; muļķīgi dengan bodoh idiootidiotisk, fjollet idiotycznie په احمقانه ډول estupidamente (în mod) stupid по-идиотски idiotsky idiotsko idiotski idiotiskt อย่างโง่เง่า ahmakça, aptal aptal 愚蠢地 ідіотськи ابلہانہ một cách ngu ngốc...
13. idiota, imbécil.
14. A person who is considered foolish or stupid.
15. A person with profound intellectual disability having a mental age below three years and generally unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
16. (Psychiatry) a person with severe mental retardation
17. a foolish or senseless person
18. an utterly stupid or foolish person.

Equivalents

Examples

“Only an idiot would fail this exam.”

“After failing a hat-trick of exams, the teacher called him an idiot.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In his moronic book, _The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design_ (2004), 334pp., the IDiot William Dembski writes on page 305 about how a fellow IDiot was fired from a research position at a "prestigious molecular biology laboratory" the very same day a press story appeared exposing this character as being an IDiot.”

“Nor does any sane or rational person believe any enzyme fell together all at once purely by chance - that is the domain of creotards, IDiots, and theoloons.”

“Thus all sciences, including evolution, are guided by the available objective physical evidence while all creationism regularly rejects any implications of objective physical evidence which does not support their IDiot Bibliolatry.”

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