Imbecile

Definition: Imbecile

Imbecile

Adjective

1. Having a mental age of three to seven years.

Noun

1. A person of subnormal intelligence.

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Date "imbecile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Literature

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Synonyms: Imbecile

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,moron, imbecile, idiot; fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole.

Imbecility Folly

Fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant; sottish; bewildered;.

B. be - imbecile; Adjective: have no -brains, have no sense.

Impotence

Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf.

Insanity

Rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel; (be imbecile); have a screw loose; Noun: have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one;s head; (be uncertain).

Imbecile, silly,.

Crosswords: Imbecile

Cato! You imbecile! Not now (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman.)

I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture (Poirot; writing credit: Clive Exton; Anthony Horowitz)

Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be proven an imbecile. (Pocketful of Miracles; writing credit: Robert Riskin; Damon Runyon)

You, you, you're like New York, Jewish, left-wing, liberal, intellectual, Central Park West, Brandeis University, the socialist summer camps and the, the father with the Ben Shahn drawings, right, and the really, y'know, strike-oriented kind of, red diaper, stop me before I make a complete imbecile of myself (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

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Books

• Miss Nomer's Guide to Painfully Incorrect English: Because It's About Time You Stopped Sounding Like an Imbecile (reference)

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The man was evidently imbecile.

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Albanian

i metë (barmy, deficient, feebleminded, incomplete, moron, wanting), teveqel (dolt, dull, dummy, fool, foolish, innocent, noodle, simpleton, zany, zombie), pa mend (foolishly), 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, idiot, idle-headed, 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 

‏معتوه (batty, cracked, crackpot, crazy, demented, dim witted, idiotic, imbecilic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, mentally deranged, off his head, possessed, screwy, sodden, soft-headed, stupid, up the pole, witless), ‏مخبل (crack-brained, crazy, demented, idiotic, insane, mad, mentally deranged), ‏أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, cuckoo, daw, dense, dim witted, dullard, fatuous, feeble minded, gaga, gawky, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, lemon, mad, patsy, screwed, sheepish, silly, sod, sodden, softy, soppy, stick in the mud, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wood-headed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слабоумен човек, слабоумен (feebleminded, half-witted, moron, nitwitted, weak-headed, weak-minded), малоумен човек (half wit), малоумен (barmy, cretinous, deficient, feebleminded, half-witted, innocent, mooncalf, oafish, simple, soft-headed, soft-witted, witless), имбецилен, имбецил. (various references)

Chinese 

蠢人, 癡 (sentimental), 痴 (foolish, sentimental, silly, stupid), 懦 (timid). (various references)

Czech

imbecilní, imbecil (jackass), pitomec (bonehead, chump, clown, dope, idiot, jackass, ninny, nitwit, twit), blbec (idiot, jackass, jerk, nitwit). (various references)

Danish

imbecil. (various references)

Dutch

imbeciel. (various references)

Farsi 

کندذهن (Dimwit, Obtuse, Stupid), سبک مغز (Harebrained, Idiot, Silly), خرفت (Doter), ابله (Asinine, Blister, Dolt, Doodle, Doter, Fool, Mome, Screwball, Silly, Simpleton), بی کله (Blockhead). (various references)

Finnish

vähämielinen. (various references)

French

imbécile (imbecilic). (various references)

German

schwachkopf (dimwit, half wit, idiot, moron, nit, nitwit, thickie, wanker, zombie), imbezil, geistesschwach (feebleminded, moronic). (various references)

Greek 

βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, ignoramus, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany), βλάκας (ass, bozo, dimwit, fool, idiot, nitwit), βλαξ (goon, gudgeon, lummox, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, tomfool, zany), ηλίθιοσ (booby, clot, cretin, dopey, dull, dumb, fool, gawky, goofy, goon, idiot, idiotic, mooncalf, moronic, nitwit, poky, sap-head, sheepish, sottish, stupid, thick), ηλίθιος (asinine), ευήθης. (various references)

Hebrew 

מטומטם (bird brained, dense, dopey, dullard, gaga, goon, half wit, halfwitted, lame brain, lout, muddleheaded, oafish, obtuse, sot, stupid, thickheaded, woodenheaded), שוטה (barmy, brainless, daft, dolt, dupe, fool, idiot, noodle, oaf, sappy, silly, stupid), טפש (fool, goof, goofy, nonsensical, silly, simpleton, stupid, unwise). (various references)

Hungarian

imbecillis, imbecilis, tökkelütött (doltish, fat-headed, muddle-headed), hülye (blithering, bozo, clot, cretin, dead above the ears, Dotty, gaga, goofy, goon, half wit, half-wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, jake, jay, klutz, moonstruck, moron, moronic, mutt, mutton-head, nerd, nitwit, nurd, nutter, oafish, sap-head, schmo, shmo, silly, stupid, vacuous, wacko, wart), gyenge elméjû (feeble minded, half-witted, mooncalf, weak-minded), félkegyelmű (natural, oafish), bárgyú (dunderhead, imbecilic, stupefied, vacuous). (various references)

Indonesian

orang pandir (gaby). (various references)

Italian

imbecille (dimwitted, dummy, half wit, rube, slaphead, softies, stupid). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

低能者 (moron). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ていのうしゃ (moron). (various references)

Manx

ommidjagh (absurd, brainless, crackpot, fatuous, foolish, idiotic, madcap, nonsensical, scatter-brained, silly), ommidan (crackpot, cretin, dope, featherbrain, fool, loony, moron, mug, nutcase, twit, widgeon), moal-hushtagh (fool, half-witted, idiot, idiotic), meecheeayllagh (absurd, half-witted, idiot, mad, nonsensical, silly, simple, unadvised), jei-hushtagh, anlheiltagh (disabled, disabling, feeble). (various references)

Pig Latin

imbecileay.(various references)

Portuguese

imbecil (addled, anile, ass, barmy, dull, dunderhead, fatuous, feather brain, featherbrained, foolish, goofy, gowk, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, jackass, loggerhead, moronic, nitwit, nitwitted, oaf, oafish, pumpkin-head, stupe, stupid, twerp, underwit, witless), idiota (fat-head, fool, idiot, idiotic, jay, jerk, jolterhead, mooncalf, moron, natural, numskull, oaf, prodigy, silly, slaphappy, softhead, stupid, sucker, tomfool), est�pido (idiot, idiotic, ignoramus). (various references)

Romanian

imbecil (fool, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, idiotical, moron, nincompoop, soft-headed, witless, wooden-headed), tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, dim, donkey, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, squarehead, stupid, sucker), debil mintal (mental deficient, mentally deficient), cretin (cretan, cretin, idiot, mooncalf, Patsi). (various references)

Russian 

слабоумный (anile, crack-brained, cretinous, daft, feebleminded, feeble-minded, half wit, half-wit, half-witted, idiot, mentally deficient, moron, simpleminded, simple-minded, underwit, weak-headed, weak-minded, witless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

imbecilan, imbecil. (various references)

Spanish

imbécil (anile, dimwit, dolt, fathead, feeble minded, fool, half-witted, idiotic, mindless, moronic, prat, silly, stupid, twit, wrong, you imbecile). (various references)

Swedish

imbecill. (various references)

Thai

ปัญญาอ่อน (คำหยาบ). (various references)

Turkish

geri zekâlı kimse, geri zekâlı (feeble minded, idiot, mentally retarded, moron, subnormal), embesil. (various references)

Ukrainian

недоумкуватий (ament, anile, batchy, changeling, crack-brained, crackpot, cracky, crazy, cretinous, daft, doddery, feeble minded, foolish, half wit, idiot, moron, weak-minded), придуркуватий (assish, calvish, naпve, oafish, sheepish, slaphappy, soft-headed, touched, wanting, weak-headed), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người khờ dại (babe, blunderhead, boob, fool, gaby, goosey, greenhorn, half-wit, juggins, nincompoop, rattle-brain, scapegrace, sheep's-head, silly, spooney, spoony), người đần (pudding-head, zany), khờ dại (half-witted, idiotic, idiotical, ill-advised, ill-judged, insipient, lubberly, shiftless, sillily, spoonily). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "imbecile": imbeciles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Imbecile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: embecile, imbacile, imbecil, imbecill, imbeclic, imbicile, inbecile. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: limbic.

-3 letters: belie, celeb, climb, clime, elemi, limbi, melic.

-4 letters: bice, bile, ceil, emic, lice, limb, lime, mice, mile.

-5 letters: bee, bel, cee, cel, eel, elm, eme, ice, lee, lei, lib, lie, mel, mib, mil.

+1 letter: imbeciles.

+3 letters: immedicable, medicinable.

+4 letters: imbecilities.

+5 letters: biotelemetric, imperceivable, imperceptible, imperceptibly, irreclaimable.