imbecile
nomadjectifattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ɪmbəˈsiːl//
- États-Unis//ˈɪmbəsɪl//
- États-Unis//ˈɪmbəsəl//
- //ɪmˈbɛsɪl//
A fool, an idiot.
nom
- 1
obsolèteA 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!”
Étymologie
Borrowed from Middle French imbécile, from Latin imbēcillus (“weak, feeble”), literally “without a staff”.
adjectif
- 1
vieilliDestitute 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.
Formes
- pluriel
- imbeciles
- comparatif
- more imbecile
- superlatif
- most imbecile