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   imbecile

   /ˈɪmbɪsiːl/

   noun

   • 1. a stupid person.
   • ▪ a person of low intelligence.

   adjective

   • 1. stupid; idiotic: "try not to make imbecile remarks"

   Word 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.

   Derivatives

   • 1. imbecilic adjective
   • 2. imbecility noun

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   Imbecile is a noun that means a person who behaves in an extremely stupid way. Learn more about its pronunciation, translations and related words and phrases in the Cambridge Dictionary.

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   An imbecile is a person of very low intelligence or a foolish person. Find out the origin, usage, and translations of the word imbecile from various sources and dictionaries.

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   Where did the word imbecile come from?

   • 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.

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   What does it mean to call someone an imbecile?

   • If you call someone an imbecile, you are showing that you think they are stupid or have done something stupid. I don't want to deal with these imbeciles any longer. Imbecile means stupid. It was an imbecile thing to do.

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   What does imbecilic mean?

   • 2. a person of the second order in a former classification of mental retardation, above the level of idiocy, having a mental age of seven or eight years and an intelligence quotient of 25 to 50. 3. imbecilic. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.

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   What is imbecile adjective?

   • (old-fashioned, offensive) a word used to describe a person with a very low level of intelligence that is now considered offensive Definition of imbecile adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   What does it mean if your best friend calls you an imbecile?

   • 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".

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   What are some examples of imbeciles?

   • Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2016 Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government.

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   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.

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    imbecile is considered offensive. imbecile has developed meanings and uses in subjects including medicine (mid 1500s) psychology (1830s)