Meaning

2 senses

  1. (derogatory)A fool, an idiot.

    Idiot, Dummkopf

    дура́кdurák, ду́раdúra

  2. (obsolete)A person with limited mental capacity who can perform tasks and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five- to seven-year-old child.

    geistig Zurückgebliebener, geistig Behinderter, Schwachsinniger

    имбеци́лimbecíl, слабоу́мныйslaboúmnyj

More definitions
  • a person of subnormal intelligence

Examples

26 sentences

  1. Tom is an imbecile.

    Том дурень.

    ruТом имбецил.

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  2. Are you all imbeciles?

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  3. You're an imbecile.

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  4. Tom was an imbecile.

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  5. Dan doesn't care much for imbeciles.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
person with limited mental capacity:
fool:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
person with limited mental capacity:
fool:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French imbécile, from Latin imbēcillus (“weak, feeble”), literally “w

Borrowed from Middle French imbécile, from Latin imbēcillus (“weak, feeble”), literally “without a staff”.

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Forms

plural: imbeciles
Singularimbecile
Pluralimbeciles

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
Relatedimbecilic
Derivedimbecilelyimbecilificationimbecilismimbecility

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
imagineA1imagingimamimbalanceimbibeimbueimitateB1imitationB2
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