imbecile

sostantivoaggettivoattestato nei dialoghi

Regno Unito//ɪmbəˈsiːl//
Stati Uniti//ˈɪmbəsɪl//
Stati Uniti//ˈɪmbəsəl//
//ɪmˈbɛsɪl//

A fool, an idiot.

sostantivo

1
obsoletoA 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!”

Etimologia

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

aggettivo

1
desuetoDestitute 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.

Forme

plurale: imbeciles
comparativo: more imbecile
superlativo: 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.

Le pagine vicine — L'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.