imbecile

nounadjectiveattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ɪmbəˈsiːl//
United States//ˈɪmbəsɪl//
United States//ˈɪmbəsəl//
//ɪmˈbɛsɪl//

A fool, an idiot.

noun

1
obsoleteA 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.
It is an offence for a man to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile.
2
A fool, an idiot.
VLADIMIR: Because he wouldn't save them. / ESTRAGON: From hell? / VLADIMIR: Imbecile! From death.
“A rat picked up a drink can and threw it at me?” yelled Mr Big. “A big rat, guv’nor? One of them super-rats?” suggested Thumbs. “It landed on my head, you imbecile!”

Etymology

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

adjective

1
datedDestitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; especially, mentally weak.
hospitals for the imbecile and insane
And then that imbecile crowd down on the deck started their little fun, and I could see nothing more for smoke.

Forms

plural: imbeciles
comparative: more imbecile
superlative: most imbecile

imagining · Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.imam · One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.Imam · A surname from Arabic.

imbecile · A fool, an idiot.

imitate · To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy,…imitating · An instance of imitation.imitation · The act of imitating.

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