'mentally retarded' definitions:
Definition of 'mentally retarded'
From: WordNet
noun
People collectively who are mentally retarded; "he started a school for the retarded" [syn: mentally retarded, retarded, developmentally challenged]
Definition of 'mentally retarded'
From: GCIDE
- Retarded \Re*tard"ed\, n. having a limited or below normal mental ability; same as
- mentally retarded; -- used especially in relation to performance in academic tasks. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'mentally retarded'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arrested,
- babbling,
- backward,
- blithering,
- burbling,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazy,
- cretinistic,
- cretinous,
- dithering,
- driveling,
- drooling,
- half-baked,
- half-witted,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- maundering,
- mentally defective,
- mentally deficient,
- mentally handicapped,
- mongoloid,
- moronic,
- not all there,
- retarded,
- simple,
- simpleminded,
- simpletonian,
- slobbering,
- subnormal