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Definition: Idiot |
IdiotNoun1. A person of subnormal intelligence. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "idiot" was first used: some time in the early 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Idiot \Id"i*ot\, noun. [French expression idiot, from Latin expression idiota an uneducated, ignorant, ill-informed person, Greek, also and originally, private person, not holding public office, from proper, peculiar. See Idiom.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | From Eng. idea, and out. One who is just out of ideas. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | Idiots in a dream, foretells disagreements and losses. To dream that you are an idiot, you will feel humiliated and downcast over the miscarriage of plans. To see idiotic children, denotes affliction and unhappy changes in life. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Education | A person in whose case there exists mental defectiveness of such a degree that they are unable to guard themselves against common danger. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Idiot meant originally a private person, one not engaged in any public office. Hence Jeremy Taylor says, "Humility is a duty in great ones, as well as in idiots" (private persons). The Greeks have the expressions, "a priest or an idiot" (layman), "a poet or an idiot" (prose-writer). As idiots were not employed in public offices, the term became synonymous with incompetency to fulfil the duties thereof. (Greek, idiotes.) (See Baron.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Albanian (debil), Bielorussian (pizdabol' ), Catalan (pastanaga, sapastre), Dutch (dombo, lul, oetlul), German (verdammter Schweinehund), Italian (budiùlo, coglione), Norwegian (idiot), Panjabi (bef koof), Polish (piz'dzielec), Quebecois (niaiseuse, niaiseux), Slovak (chuj), Spanish (capullo , cutre , gilipollas, pendejo), Swedish (kronjon), Swiss German (lööli , tubel), Welsh (coc oen). (references) |
Public Administration | Enc. Britt. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Berk, someone who doesn't know shit from shinola. (references) |
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Synonyms: IdiotSynonyms: changeling (n), cretin (n), half-wit (n), imbecile (n), moron (n), retard (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence or want of Intellect | Moron, imbecile, idiot; fool; dumb animal; vegetable, brain-dead. |
Fool | Noun: fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais. |
Ignoramus | Moron, imbecile, idiot; fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole. |
Madman | Idiot. |
Unmeaningness | Empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil; "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Idiot |
| English words defined with "idiot": Driveler ♦ even ♦ Fon ♦ idiot box, idiot light, idiot savant, Idiotical, Idiotish, imbecility ♦ Nidget ♦ Slabberer, Slaverer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "idiot": @Begin ♦ berk, BFI, bozotic ♦ cup holder ♦ doesn't know shit from shinola ♦ Gellatley ♦ Hercules Secundus ♦ Inspired Idiot ♦ jacko ♦ LONG TONGUED ♦ story. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "idiot": foolhardy ♦ idiocy, Idioticon, Idiotism. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Idiot" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (ass, asshole, cretin, dizzy, fool, idiot, idiotic, motherfucker, natural, shitass, shithead), Czech (cretin, idiot), Danish (idiot), French (addled, asinine, ass, asshole, daft, dullard, fathead, fat-head, fatuous, fool, foolish, footless, gaby, gawky, goon, half wit, halfwitted, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, loon, lunatic, moron, natural, nonsensical, off his rocker, pointless, rubbishy, silly, soft-headed, softy, soppy, stupid, tomfool, twerp, twit, wooden, wood-headed), German (basket, blockhead, clown, cretin, doofus, drip, goon, idiot, imbecile, ninny, numskull, twit, zombie), Norwegian (idiot), Papiamen (idiotic), Romanian (cretinous, fool, half wit, idiot, idiotic, idiotical, idiotically, lunkhead, mooncalf, mutt, nincompoop, numskull, piffling, senseless, soft, stick, stupid), Serbo-Croatian (idiot), Swedish (cuckoo, dumbbell, dumb-bell, idiot, imbecile, mooncalf, moron, oaf, sap, saphead, Turkey, wet). |
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Screenplays | Awwyou know that was the hardest part of having to portray youyou running like an idiot every fifteen minutes. (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore) Place that idiot scientist under arrest! (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) A natural fucking idiot. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) I don't think you're an idiot at all. I mean, there are elements of the ridiculous about you. Your mother's pretty interesting. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) I'm not an idiot. I know how the world works. (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) | |
Lyrics | Cause I'm an idiot, a loser, microphone abuser ("Take A Look Around"; performing artist: Limp Bizkit) | |
Clever | Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. (references; author: Mark Twain) Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot. (references; author: unknown) When you are arguing with an idiot, make sure the other person isn't doing the same thing. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Un idiot Paris (1967) The Idiot (1966) Idiot (1958) Price 2d Idiot Weekly (1956) L' Idiot (1946) | |
Song Titles | Town Idiot, The (performing artist: Kicking Giant) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Idiot.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Anton Chekhov | Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out. |
Horace Mann | If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. |
John Donne | Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love. |
Steven Wright | There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot. |
W. S. Gilbert | The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own. |
William Blake | To generalize is to be an idiot. |
| What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. | |
William Shakespeare | Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I do what you wish, that cuts you out of it, idiot. |
Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that's burned dry. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot face. |
Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. |
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Children | Russia | The label of "imbecile" or idiot, which is assigned by a commission that assesses children with developmental problems at the age of 3 and which signifies "uneducable," almost always is irrevocable, and even the label of "debil"--lightly retarded--follows a person throughout his or her life on official documents, creating barriers to employment and housing after graduation from state institutions. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
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| "Idiot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.85% of the time. "Idiot" is used about 601 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.85% | 570 | 11,057 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.82% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.16% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 601 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "idiot": a dithering idiot ♦ arch idiot ♦ blithering idiot ♦ blundering idiot ♦ congenital idiot ♦ he is a regular idiot ♦ idiot box ♦ idiot card ♦ idiot light ♦ idiot savant ♦ play the village idiot ♦ prize idiot ♦ silly idiot ♦ thundering idiot ♦ village idiot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "idiot": idiot-proof, idiot-proofing. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
idiot | 1,088 |
boyfriend idiot | 155 |
idiot delight | 129 |
idiot guide | 107 |
idiot test | 77 |
village idiot | 41 |
bush idiot | 41 |
idiot savant | 30 |
idiot savants | 21 |
hollywood idiot | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "idiot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | idiot (ass, asshole, cretin, dizzy, fool, idiotic, motherfucker, natural, shitass, shithead), tarallak (buzzard, dull, dull fellow, simpleton, stupid), hajvan (animal, beast, donkey, dope, imp, jackass, jay, moron, mutt, noodle), budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, silly, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references) | |
Arabic | المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gaby, gander, gawk, jackass, lout, lunkhead, moron, mug, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany), المعتوه (bedlamite, boob, booby, daft, natural), الأحمق (blockhead, goof, numskull, oaf, soft, stupid, zany), الأبله (blockhead, booby, cake, cloddish, dolt, goof, goon, half wit, moron, natural). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | идиот (driveller, half wit, jerk, mooncalf). (various references) | |
Chinese | 货, 白癡 , 白痴 (idiocy), 笨蛋 (fool). (various references) | |
Czech | idiot (cretin), pitomec (bonehead, chump, clown, dope, imbecile, jackass, ninny, nitwit, twit), hlupák (ass, blockhead, booby, chump, dolt, dotterel, dottrel, dunce, dupe, fool, gaby, half wit, ignoramus, jobbernowl, leather-head, loggerhead, pudding-head, sap-head, simpleton, thick-head, tomfool), blbec (imbecile, jackass, jerk, nitwit, tit). (various references) | |
Danish | idiot, tosse. (various references) | |
Dutch | idioot (idiotic). (various references) | |
Esperanto | idioto. (various references) | |
Farsi | ساده (Bald, Bare, Downright, Explicit, Homespun, Inexpensive, Plain, Positive, Simple, Slick, Unaadorned, Unaffected, Unassuming, Unceremonious, Unmeaning, Untutored), سبک مغز (Harebrained, Imbecile, Silly), خرف (Senile, Wacky), ادم سفیه واحمق . (various references) | |
Finnish | idiootti, houkka (dupe, fool), hölmö (fool, simpleton). (various references) | |
French | idiot (idiotic). (various references) | |
Frisian | idioat (idiotic). (various references) | |
German | Idiot (basket, blockhead, clown, cretin, doofus, drip, goon, imbecile, ninny, numskull, twit, zombie), dummkopf (ass, blockhead, bonehead, booby, chump, dimwit, dullard, dunce, fool, goose, half wit, imbecile, jackass, loggerhead, meathead, nit, nitwit, pinhead, thick, thickhead, thick-head). (various references) | |
Greek | ηλίθιοσ (booby, clot, cretin, dopey, dull, dumb, fool, gawky, goofy, goon, idiotic, imbecile, mooncalf, moronic, nitwit, poky, sap-head, sheepish, sottish, stupid, thick), ανόητοσ (blithering, daft, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, inane, inept, insensate, insipient, knighterrantry, ninny, nitwit, nonsensical, sappy, senseless, silly, slap happy, unwise, witless). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שוט" (barmy, brainless, daft, dolt, dupe, fool, imbecile, noodle, oaf, sappy, silly, stupid), אי"יוט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | idióta (moron). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bodoh (dull, dumb, fool, hare-brained, obtuse, wooden-headed). (various references) | |
Italian | idiota (fook, fool, idiotic, mooncalf, moron, stupid, twerp). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 莫迦 (folly, fool, trivial matter), "抜け (blockhead, dunce, stupidity), 阿房 (fool, simpleton), 阿呆 (fool, simpleton), 馬鹿 (folly, fool, trivial matter), "馬 (dope, fool), "痴気 (dimwit, dope, fool, numbskull), 白痴 (idiocy), 痴人 (dunce, fool), 痴れ者 (dunce, fool), 家 (folly, fool, trivial matter), 惚け (Alzheimer's, assumed innocence, feigned ignorance, fool, out of it from, space case, touched in the head from), 呆け (Alzheimer's, fool, out of it from, space case, touched in the head from). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しれもの (dunce, fool), まぬけ (blockhead, dunce, stupidity), ぼけ (Alzheimer's, fool, Japanese quince, out of it from, space case, touched in the head from), ばか (folly, fool, trivial matter), あほう (fool, simpleton), はくち (anchorage, berth, idiocy), と"ま (dope, fool), と"ちき (dimwit, dope, fool, numbskull), ちじ" (acquaintance, dunce, fool, friend). (various references) | |
Korean | 백치 (idiotic, Idiotical). (various references) | |
Manx | thoot (boob, bumpkin, cry baby, lubber, namby-pamby, oaf, simpleton), moal-hushtagh (fool, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile), meecheeayllagh (absurd, half-witted, imbecile, mad, nonsensical, silly, simple, unadvised), lag-hushtagh (ignorant, retarded person, weak in head, weak-minded), bolvane (simpleton, stupid person), bleb (dupe, fool). (various references) | |
Norwegian | idiot. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idiotay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imbecil (addled, anile, ass, asshole, barmy, dull, dune, fauces, feather brain, feathering, foolish, goon, gowk, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, jackboot, loggerhead, morose, nitwit, nitwitted, oaf, oak, pumpkin-head, stupe, stupid, twerp, underwit, witless). (various references) | |
Romanian | imbecil (fool, half-witted, idiotic, idiotical, imbecile, moron, nincompoop, soft-headed, witless, wooden-headed), idiot (cretinous, fool, half wit, idiotic, idiotical, idiotically, lunkhead, mooncalf, mutt, nincompoop, numskull, piffling, senseless, soft, stick, stupid), tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, asshole, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, dim, donkey, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, motherfucker, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, shitass, squarehead, stupid, sucker), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), cretin (cretan, cretin, imbecile, mooncalf, Patsi). (various references) | |
Russian | идиот (clot, driveller, jerk, mooncalf, moron, pillock, plonker, prat, wanker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | idiotski (idiotic), idiot. (various references) | |
Spanish | idiota (asinine, berk, boy, fool, half-witted, idiotic, moron, mutton-headed, ridiculous, stupid, stupid person). (various references) | |
Swedish | idiot (cuckoo, dumbbell, dumb-bell, imbecile, mooncalf, moron, oaf, sap, saphead, Turkey, wet), fåne (fool, prat). (various references) | |
Thai | คนโง่เง่า (คำหยาบ). (various references) | |
Turkish | salak (country bumpkin, crazy, cretin, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dope, dopey, fool, gullible, jerky, ninny, obtuse, silly, stupid, sucker), geri zekâlı (feeble minded, imbecile, mentally retarded, moron, subnormal), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit), allahlik, ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ідіот (cretin, moron, natural, omadhaun), недоумкуватий (ament, anile, batchy, changeling, crack-brained, crackpot, cracky, crazy, cretinous, daft, doddery, feeble minded, foolish, half wit, imbecile, moron, weak-minded). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thằng ngốc (mooncalf, tomfool, tomnoddy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | hu-ru. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | idiotes. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | idiota. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | idiote. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Corinthians Chapter 14, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ean de panteV profhteuwsin eiselqh de tiV apistoV h idiwthV elegcetai upo pantwn anakrinetai upo pantwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si autem omnes prophetent intret autem quis infidelis vel idiota convincitur ab omnibus diiudicatur ab omnibus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But if alle men prophecien, if ony vnfeithful man or idiot entre, he is conuyct of alle, he is wiseli demyd of alle. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But and yf all prophesy and ther come in one that beleveth not or one vnlearned he is rebuked of all men and is iudged of every man: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Corinthians Chapter 14, Verse 24 |
| Bulgarian | Защото един след друг всички можете да пророкувате, за да се поучават всички и всички да се насърчават; |
| Cebuano | Apan kon ang tagsatagsa magahimog profesiya, ug unya mosulod ang usa ka tawo nga dili magtotoo o Walayp alamag, kini siya pagahukman sa tanan, siya pagasudyaan sa tanan, |
| Chinese | 若 都 作 先 知 講 " 、 偶 然 有 不 信 的 、 或 是 不 通 方 言 的 人 進 來 、 就 被 眾 人 勸 ' 、 被 眾 人 審 明 ． |
| Croatian | Ako pak svi prorokuju, a uðe koji nevjernik ili neupuæen, sve ga prekorava, sve ga osuðuje. |
| Danish | Men dersom alle profetere, og der kommer nogen vantro eller uindviet ind, da overbevises han af alle, han bedømmes af alle, |
| Dutch | Maar indien zij allen profeteerden, en een ongelovige of ongeleerde inkwame, die wordt van allen overtuigd, en hij wordt van allen geoordeeld. |
| Finnish | Mutta jos kaikki profetoisivat ja joku uskosta tai opetuksesta osaton tulisi sisään, niin kaikki paljastaisivat hänet ja kaikki langettaisivat hänestä tuomion, |
| French | Mais si tous prophétisent, et qu`il survienne quelque non-croyant ou un homme du peuple, il est convaincu par tous, il est jugé par tous, |
| German | So sie aber alle weissagen und käme dann ein Ungläubiger oder Laie hinein, der würde von ihnen allen gestraft und von allen gerichtet; |
| Haitian Creole | Men, si tout moun ap bay mesaj ki soti nan Bondye, lè sa a yon moun ki pa kwè, osinon yon moun deyò, si l' vin rive, sa la tande a va fè l' wè aklè se nan peche l'ap viv. Tou sa l'ap tande a pral jije li. |
| Hungarian | De ha mindnyájan prófétálnak és bemegy egy hitetlen, vagy avatatlan, az mindenektõl megfeddetik, mindenektõl megítéltetik, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi kalau Saudara semuanya menyampaikan berita dari Allah, lalu datang seorang yang bukan Kristen atau seorang luar, maka hal-hal yang diberitakan oleh Saudara semuanya akan menunjukkan dosa-dosa orang itu dan membuat ia sadar akan dosa-dosanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi jikalau sekaliannya sedang bernubuat, lalu masuk seorang yang tiada beriman atau tiada berkarunia itu, maka orang itu akan ditempelak oleh sekaliannya, dan dikira-kirakan oleh sekaliannya itu, |
| Italian | Se invece tutti profetassero e sopraggiungesse qualche non credente o un non iniziato, verrebbe convinto del suo errore da tutti, giudicato da tutti; |
| Korean | 그 러 나 다 예 언 을 하 면 믿 지 아 니 하 " 자 " 이 나 무 식 한 자 " 이 " 어 와 서 모 " 사 람 에 게 책 망 을 " 으 며 모 " 사 람 에 게 판 단 을 받 |
| Latvian | Bet ja, visiem pravietojot, ienâktu neticîgais vai nepratçjs, un visi viòu pârliecinâtu, visi viòu pârbaudîtu, |
| Maori | Tena ka poropiti katoa, a ka tapoko mai tetahi tangata whakaponokore, kuware ranei, ka mau tona he i te katoa, ka whakawakia e te katoa; |
| Modern Greek | Αλλ' εαν παντες προφητευωσιν, εισελθη δε τις απιστος η ιδιωτης, ελεγχεται υπο παντων, ανακρινεται υπο παντων, |
| Norwegian | Men om alle taler profetisk, og det så kommer inn en vantro eller en ukyndig, så refses han av alle og dømmes av alle, |
| Portuguese | Mas, se todos profetizarem, e algum incrédulo ou indouto entrar, por todos é convencido, por todos é julgado; |
| Rumanian | Dar dacq toyi proorocesc, wi intrq vreun necredincios sau vreunul fqrq daruri, el este kncredinyat de toyi, este judecat de toyi. |
| Russian | оП ЛПЗ"Б ЧУЕ ТПТПЮЕУФЧХАФ, Й ЧПК"ЕФ ЛФП ОЕЧЕТХАЭЙК ЙМЙ ОЕЪОБАЭЙК, ФП ПО ЧУЕНЙ П'МЙЮБЕФУС, ЧУЕНЙ УХ"ЙФУС. |
| Shuar | Tura Yus-Chicham étserkurminkia nékachusha tura Yus-shuarchasha nui wayanka Ashí Tárumna nujai ni tunaarin iimias Enentáimturtatui. |
| Spanish | Pero si todos profetizan, y entra algún no creyente o indocto, por todos será convencido, por todos será examinado, |
| Swahili | Lakini, wote wakiwa wanautangaza ujumbe wa Mungu, akija mtu wa kawaida au asiyeamini, yote atakayosikia yatamhakikishia ubaya wake mwenyewe; yote atakayosikia yatamhukumu. |
| Swedish | Om åter alla profeterade, och så någon som icke trodde, eller som vore olärd komme ditin, då skulle denne känna sig avslöjad av alla och av alla utrannsakad. |
| Thai | แต่ถ้าทุกคนพยากร"์ คนที่ไม่เชื่อหรือคนที่รู้ไม่ถึงเข้ามา ทุกคนก็จะทำให้เขารู้สำนึก และทำให้เขาพิจาร"าใจของตนเอง |
| Ukrainian | Коли ж усі пророкують, а ввійде якийсь невіруючий чи сторонній, то всі докоряють йому, усі судять його, |
| Uma | Aga ane hawe'ea-ni mpohowa' lolita Alata'ala pai' mesua' hadua tauna to bela-i to Kristen ba to ko'ia-i mpo'incai Lolita Alata'ala, kampo'epe-na napa omea to ni'uli', monoto-mi hi rala nono-na kamojeko' -na. Hewa ria hi rala nono-na to mpo'uli': "To hi aku' -mi tetu-e mai!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "idiot": idiotic, idiotical, idiotically, idiotism, idiotisms, idiots. (additional references) | |
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"Idiot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adeot, dijot, diot, edio, ediot, Fidatov, Hidipo, ibio, ideog, idi, idict, idie, idiod, idioit, idiol, idion, idiop, Idiota, idiott, Idit, idlot, idoit, idoity, idot, idriart, Ijo, irio, ition, Liddiat, midfoot, odio, Oudinot, sidcot, Tiviot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "idiot" (pronounced i"dēut) |
| 4 | -d ē u t | immediate, intermediate, remediate. |
| 3 | -ē u t | appropriate, associate, baccalaureate, chariot, Cheviot, compatriot, inappropriate, lariat, laureate, opiate, patriot, proletariat, secretariat, soviet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-i-o-t" | |
-1 letter: doit. | |
-2 letters: dit, dot, tod. | |
-3 letters: do, id, it, od, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-o-t" | |
+1 letter: idiots. | |
+2 letters: diction, dinitro, diorite, dithiol, edition, histoid, idiotic, lithoid, poditic, tolidin, trioxid. | |
+3 letters: acidotic, actinoid, addition, audition, diatomic, diatonic, dichotic, dicrotic, dictions, dilation, dilution, dioptric, diorites, dioritic, disjoint, dittoing, docility, editions, epidotic, hidrotic, ideation, idiolect, idiotism, idoneity, indictor, iodating, iodation, iodinate, isthmoid, midpoint, notified, oddities, oribatid, otitides, retinoid, sedition, sistroid, solidity, tolidine, tolidins, toluidin, trichoid, trioxide, trioxids, triploid, tripodic, utilidor. | |
+4 letters: actinoids, addiction, additions, adiposity, apodictic, auditions, auditoria, coediting, condition, corticoid, coxitides, dacoities, dakoities, deltoidei, dentition, depiction, detrition, deviation, diabolist, dialogist, diastolic, diatomite, diazotize, dicrotism, dictation, dictional, digestion, digitonin, digitoxin, dilations, dilutions, diplontic, direction, discomfit, disjoints, disorient, dizygotic, doleritic, dolomitic, editorial, erudition, floridity, fortified, granitoid, hideosity, hidrotics, ideations, idioblast, idiolects, idiomatic, idiotical, idiotisms, incondite, indention, indicator, indiction, indictors, indigotin, induction, introfied, iodations, iodinated, iodinates, mediation, midpoints, morbidity, mortified, nautiloid, ommatidia, optimised, optimized, oribatids, outpitied, outriding, oxidating, oxidation, oxidative, perdition, peridotic, podiatric, quotidian, radiation, reedition, rendition, retinoids, seditions, seditious, sodomitic, solicited, stolidity, tolidines, toluidine, toluidins, torpidity, torridity, torrified, tortricid, tradition, trioxides, triploids, triploidy, tripodies, tyrocidin, utilidors, vitrioled. | |
+5 letters: abdication, addictions, additional, admiration, admonition, ambitioned, antibodies, antidoting, antidromic, antimonide, apodeictic, auditioned, auditories, auditorily, auditorium, bimodality, carotinoid, chondritic, clitorides, clostridia, coatimundi, coincident, conditions, cordiality, cordierite, corticoids, decimation, dedication, definition, demolition, dentitions, deorbiting, depictions, depilation, depositing, deposition, derivation, detoxified, detoxifies, detritions, deviations, diabolists, diagnostic, dialogists, diatomites, diazotized, diazotizes, dicrotisms, dictations, dictionary, digestions, digitonins, digitoxins, dilatation, dilatorily, diminution, diplomatic, directions, disappoint, discomfits, discretion, disjointed, disorients, dispiteous, disporting, disrooting, disruption, dissection, dissention, dissociate, distension, distention, distichous, distorting, distortion, distrainor, divagation, divination, divinatory, docilities, dolomitize, dominating, domination, dominative, dominatrix, dosimetric, dubitation, editorials, editorship, endobiotic, endolithic, epileptoid, epitomised, epitomized, ergodicity, eroticized, eruditions, expedition, fastidious, gadolinite, gothicized, hedonistic, ideational, ideologist, idioblasts, idiolectal, idiopathic, idolatries, idoneities, indagation, indentions, indexation, indication, indicators, indicatory, indictions, indigotins, indocility, inductions, induration, inordinate, intaglioed, inundation, iodinating, iodination, ironfisted, irradiator, latifundio, lepidolite, liquidator, mediations, medication, mediocrity, meditation, midsection, midstories, mispointed, modalities, munitioned, nationwide, nautiloids, nodalities, nodosities, officiated, ommatidial, ommatidium, ordination, originated, osteitides, outbidding, outchiding, outdriving, outfinding, outguiding, outwinding, ovaritides, oviposited, oxidations, parasitoid, parodistic, perditions, peridotite, petitioned, pinpointed, podiatries, podiatrist, poeticized, politicked, positioned, prediction, prismatoid, prohibited, quotidians, radiations, radiolytic, reeditions, renditions, renotified, routinized, siderolite, sodalities, solicitude, solidarist, solidarity, solidities, sovietized, staminodia, tailorbird, tendonitis, theodicies, toluidines, tortricids, traditions, tyrocidine, tyrocidins, validation, victimhood, vindicator, vitriolled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 64 69 6F 74 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -.. .. --- - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100100 01101001 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I d i o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0064 0069 006F 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4370758186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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