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Definition of imbecile in English: imbecilenounˈɪmbɪsiːlˈɪmbəsəl informal A stupid person. Example sentencesExamples - He even goes as far as to proclaim that we are foolish, imbeciles, insane and lunatics, if that what his term ‘idiocy’ translates as.
- I can hardly believe I share a country with these imbeciles.
- Labelled aments (literally ‘without mind’), idiots or imbeciles, they were dealt with in the same way as those who had lost their reason, by incarceration in the new nineteenth-century lunatic asylums.
- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it
- I find it extraordinary that our country is seemingly run by imbeciles (assuming I'm not breaking any laws by expressing this point of view).
- What we resent is the deplorable, but democratic, success of junk culture and junk food, and of a political system which seems to be run by corrupt imbeciles.
- In the Eighteenth Century, imbeciles but not idiots could be executed for capital offenses.
- The people who have been telling you about all the rights you have are simply exercising one of theirs - the right to be imbeciles.
- No matter what you call the mentally deficient, that term will come to be an insult when applied to people of ordinary intellectual capacity, and not long after it will be seen as an insult to the true idiots, imbeciles, and so forth.
- Such people, said the out-of-sight narrator, were known variously as idiots, imbeciles or the feeble-minded, and lumped in together with the genuinely intellectually handicapped.
- Have we become a nation of obese imbeciles too sated with our diet of consumerism, television and self-indulgence to care who is pulling the strings at the top?
- Watching the sly but brilliant machinations of the programme - makers as they assembled their castaways, I was consumed with fury that these imbeciles were going to have the privilege of living on my island without appreciating it.
- Or are you really raising a bunch of imbeciles in your house?
- Try ordering your chicken fingers now, imbeciles!
- The 1901 census revealed that more than 13,000 people were living in asylums, officially classed as lunatics or imbeciles.
- The majority of new staff don't usually stay on for longer than a month, due to the fact that the place is run by an intolerable bunch of more-money-than-common-decency morons and imbeciles.
- I don't think I'd be able to lose sleep over you pathetic imbeciles if I tried.
- How am I ever going to learn to talk if I'm surrounded by imbeciles?
- Five hundred years ago, the Law did not recognise the right of a female to inherit, and, except in the case of some Arab and Eastern cultures, attributed to women the same rights as that of children and imbeciles.
- We're doing this because bloggers provide a waste to the internet, an amassing of imbeciles who think they deserve to be heard, and think people actually care.
Synonyms fool, idiot, cretin, moron, dolt, halfwit, ass, dunce, dullard, simpleton, nincompoop, blockhead, ignoramus, clod informal dope, thickhead, ninny, chump, dimwit, dummy, dum-dum, dumb-bell, jackass, bonehead, fathead, numbskull, dunderhead, airhead, pinhead, lamebrain, pea-brain, birdbrain, dipstick, donkey, noodle British informal nit, nitwit, twit, numpty, clot, muppet, plonker, berk, prat, pillock, wally, wazzock, divvy North American informal bozo, turkey, goofus British vulgar slang knobhead North American vulgar slang asshat
adjectiveˈɪmbɪsiːlˈɪmbəsəl attributive Stupid; idiotic. try not to make imbecile remarks Example sentencesExamples - Between historical pessimism and imbecile revolution, there is a stretch of arid territory where the cartoonist retires to.
- And what kind of a moronic imbecile search engine would send them my blog as a result?
- Frustrated, and as always, completely unable to handle my own imperfections, I settled in with my mother's aged copy of Mastering The Art of French Cooking, only to learn that it is not me, but my imbecile American eggs at fault.
- Nevertheless, for the dissenters, the Eighteenth Century understanding of the Eighth Amendment - and the ancient idiot / imbecile distinction - pretty much settled the case.
- Rules and regulations take a backseat during this fortnight of imbecile fanaticism.
- An imbecile habit has risen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another.
- He was surrounded by his imbecile friends and his girlfriend-of-the-day, Chloe, all of them just gossiping like the idiots they are.
- So, forward this to that imbecile Johnson and tell him to let go of drugs and start listening to the music he reviews instead of just hearing it.
- Usually I was so depressed on that day that I could find it in myself to be sarcastic, which meant it wasn't worth the dealing with the imbecile morons that attended Tucker High.
- Why not harness people's imbecile sense of patriotism for something useful?
- That is all you need to know about the imbecile plot.
- The genius (such as it is) resides in the system, not in a string of Ubermensch at the top gazing in horror at the imbecile masses.
- Yeah, Margot was an annoyance, a jealousy inducing pain, but she was way more appealing as a roomie than that imbecile counsellor.
Synonyms stupid, foolish, idiotic, silly, doltish, half-witted, witless, dull, brainless, mindless, unintelligent, unwise senseless, absurd, crazy, mad, fatuous, inane, asinine, ridiculous informal dense, dumb, thickheaded, dim, dim-witted, dopey, gormless, half-baked, hare-brained, crackbrained, pea-brained, nutty, dotty, batty, dippy, cuckoo, screwy, wacky British informal barmy, daft
Origin Mid 16th century (as an adjective in the sense 'physically weak'): via French from Latin imbecillus, literally 'without a supporting staff', from in- (expressing negation) + baculum 'stick, staff'. The current sense dates from the early 19th century. Originally a person described as imbecile was physically weak. The root meaning may be ‘without a supporting staff’, from Latin baculum ‘stick, staff’ (see bacterium). The current sense dates from the early 19th century.
Definition of imbecile in US English: imbecilenounˈɪmbəsəlˈimbəsəl informal A stupid person. Example sentencesExamples - Such people, said the out-of-sight narrator, were known variously as idiots, imbeciles or the feeble-minded, and lumped in together with the genuinely intellectually handicapped.
- Watching the sly but brilliant machinations of the programme - makers as they assembled their castaways, I was consumed with fury that these imbeciles were going to have the privilege of living on my island without appreciating it.
- I can hardly believe I share a country with these imbeciles.
- We're doing this because bloggers provide a waste to the internet, an amassing of imbeciles who think they deserve to be heard, and think people actually care.
- The 1901 census revealed that more than 13,000 people were living in asylums, officially classed as lunatics or imbeciles.
- I find it extraordinary that our country is seemingly run by imbeciles (assuming I'm not breaking any laws by expressing this point of view).
- How am I ever going to learn to talk if I'm surrounded by imbeciles?
- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it
- The majority of new staff don't usually stay on for longer than a month, due to the fact that the place is run by an intolerable bunch of more-money-than-common-decency morons and imbeciles.
- He even goes as far as to proclaim that we are foolish, imbeciles, insane and lunatics, if that what his term ‘idiocy’ translates as.
- I don't think I'd be able to lose sleep over you pathetic imbeciles if I tried.
- Have we become a nation of obese imbeciles too sated with our diet of consumerism, television and self-indulgence to care who is pulling the strings at the top?
- Try ordering your chicken fingers now, imbeciles!
- No matter what you call the mentally deficient, that term will come to be an insult when applied to people of ordinary intellectual capacity, and not long after it will be seen as an insult to the true idiots, imbeciles, and so forth.
- In the Eighteenth Century, imbeciles but not idiots could be executed for capital offenses.
- Five hundred years ago, the Law did not recognise the right of a female to inherit, and, except in the case of some Arab and Eastern cultures, attributed to women the same rights as that of children and imbeciles.
- Labelled aments (literally ‘without mind’), idiots or imbeciles, they were dealt with in the same way as those who had lost their reason, by incarceration in the new nineteenth-century lunatic asylums.
- The people who have been telling you about all the rights you have are simply exercising one of theirs - the right to be imbeciles.
- Or are you really raising a bunch of imbeciles in your house?
- What we resent is the deplorable, but democratic, success of junk culture and junk food, and of a political system which seems to be run by corrupt imbeciles.
Synonyms fool, idiot, cretin, moron, dolt, halfwit, ass, dunce, dullard, simpleton, nincompoop, blockhead, ignoramus, clod
adjectiveˈɪmbəsəlˈimbəsəl attributive Stupid; idiotic. try not to make imbecile remarks Example sentencesExamples - Frustrated, and as always, completely unable to handle my own imperfections, I settled in with my mother's aged copy of Mastering The Art of French Cooking, only to learn that it is not me, but my imbecile American eggs at fault.
- That is all you need to know about the imbecile plot.
- Rules and regulations take a backseat during this fortnight of imbecile fanaticism.
- He was surrounded by his imbecile friends and his girlfriend-of-the-day, Chloe, all of them just gossiping like the idiots they are.
- And what kind of a moronic imbecile search engine would send them my blog as a result?
- Why not harness people's imbecile sense of patriotism for something useful?
- The genius (such as it is) resides in the system, not in a string of Ubermensch at the top gazing in horror at the imbecile masses.
- Between historical pessimism and imbecile revolution, there is a stretch of arid territory where the cartoonist retires to.
- So, forward this to that imbecile Johnson and tell him to let go of drugs and start listening to the music he reviews instead of just hearing it.
- Yeah, Margot was an annoyance, a jealousy inducing pain, but she was way more appealing as a roomie than that imbecile counsellor.
- Usually I was so depressed on that day that I could find it in myself to be sarcastic, which meant it wasn't worth the dealing with the imbecile morons that attended Tucker High.
- An imbecile habit has risen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another.
- Nevertheless, for the dissenters, the Eighteenth Century understanding of the Eighth Amendment - and the ancient idiot / imbecile distinction - pretty much settled the case.
Synonyms stupid, foolish, idiotic, silly, doltish, half-witted, witless, dull, brainless, mindless, unintelligent, unwise
Origin Mid 16th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘physically weak’): via French from Latin imbecillus, literally ‘without a supporting staff’, from in- (expressing negation) + baculum ‘stick, staff’. The current sense dates from the early 19th century. |