'Imbecile' definitions:
Definition of 'imbecile'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Imbecile'
From: GCIDE
- Imbecile \Im"be*cile\, a. [L. imbecillis, and imbecillus; of unknown origin: cf. F. imb['e]cile.] Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.
- Syn: Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Imbecile'
From: GCIDE
- Imbecile \Im"be*cile\, n.
- 1. One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind; -- sometimes used as a pejorative term. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Psychology) A person with a degree of mental retardation between that of an idiot and a moron; in a former classification of mentally retarded person, it applied to a person with an adult mental age of from four to eith years, and an I.Q. of from 26 to 50. [PJC]
Definition of 'Imbecile'
From: GCIDE
- Imbecile \Im"be*cile\, v. t. To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'imbecile'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ament,
- amputee,
- anemic,
- apish,
- arrested,
- asinine,
- ass,
- asthenic,
- babbling,
- backward,
- batty,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- blithering,
- bloodless,
- born fool,
- brainless,
- buffoonish,
- burbling,
- chicken,
- clot,
- cockeyed,
- congenital idiot,
- cowardly,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- cretin,
- cretinistic,
- cretinous,
- cripple,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- debilitated,
- defective,
- deformity,
- dim-witted,
- dithering,
- dizzy,
- donkey,
- doting,
- driveling,
- drooling,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dull,
- dumb,
- effete,
- etiolated,
- faint,
- faintish,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flaky,
- floppy,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- golem,
- gone,
- goofy,
- gulled,
- gutless,
- half-baked,
- half-wit,
- half-witted,
- handicapped person,
- idiot,
- idiotic,
- imbecilic,
- impotent,
- inane,
- incapable,
- inept,
- infatuated,
- insane,
- jackass,
- jerk,
- juggins,
- kooky,
- languid,
- languorous,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- loony,
- lustless,
- mad,
- marrowless,
- maudlin,
- maundering,
- mentally defective,
- mentally deficient,
- mentally handicapped,
- mentally retarded,
- mongoloid,
- mongoloid idiot,
- moron,
- moronic,
- natural,
- natural idiot,
- natural-born fool,
- nerveless,
- nincompoop,
- ninny,
- not all there,
- nutty,
- paralytic,
- paraplegic,
- pithless,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- quadriplegic,
- retarded,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- sappy,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- silly,
- simp,
- simple,
- simpleminded,
- simpleton,
- simpletonian,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- slobbering,
- slow,
- slow-witted,
- soft,
- spineless,
- strengthless,
- stupid,
- subnormal,
- the crippled,
- the handicapped,
- thoughtless,
- tomfool,
- unhardened,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- wacky,
- weak,
- weakly,
- wet,
- witless,
- zany