| 单词 | imbecile |
| 释义 | imbecile (once / 1496 pages) nadj If your best friend calls you an imbecile, he's implying that you're stupid, and he's probably pretty angry with you. An imbecile is an extremely stupid person. The noun imbecile is used informally as an insult to mean "fool". Its origins are in the Latin word imbecille, "weak or feeble," and it was an official medical term for people with a specific (and low) I.Q. in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Patients who were classified as imbeciles were said to have no more intelligence than a seven year-old child. WORD FAMILYimbecile: imbecilely, imbeciles, imbecilic, imbecility+/imbecility: imbecilities USAGE EXAMPLESThere are manifestoes, fliers for events and a handbill titled “Funny Guy” in which Picabia identifies himself as “an imbecile, an idiot and a pickpocket.” New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) “Shut up, you imbecile!” a soldier yelled at him. New York Times(Nov 14, 2016) What imbecile thought it was a good idea to disallow early voting or voting by mail? New York Times(Nov 08, 2016) 1n a person of subnormal intelligence Syn|Hypo|Hyper changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, moron, retard mongoloid a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense) simple, simpleton a person lacking intelligence or common sense 2adj having a mental age of three to seven years Syn idiotic, imbecilic retarded relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development |
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