Imbecile

Noun

 * 1) A person with limited   who can perform  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.
 * 2)  A fool, an idiot.

Derived terms

 * imbecilic (adjective)
 * imbecility (noun)

Adjectives for Imbecile
financial; inept; vacuous; egregious.

Thesaurus
ament, amputee, anemic, apish, arrested, asinine, ass, asthenic, babbling, backward, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blithering, bloodless, born fool, brainless, buffoonish, burbling, chicken, clot, cockeyed, congenital idiot, cowardly, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, credulous, cretin, cretinistic, cretinous, cripple, daffy, daft, dazed, debilitated, defective, deformity, dim-witted, dithering, dizzy, donkey, doting, driveling, drooling, drooping, droopy, dull, dumb, effete, etiolated, faint, faintish, fatuitous, fatuous, feeble, feebleminded, flabby, flaccid, flaky, floppy, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, golem, gone, goofy, gulled, gutless, half-baked, half-wit, half-witted, handicapped person, idiot, idiotic, imbecilic, impotent, inane, incapable, inept, infatuated, insane, jackass, jerk, juggins, kooky, languid, languorous, limber, limp, listless, loony, lustless, mad, marrowless, maudlin, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, mongoloid idiot, moron, moronic, natural, natural idiot, natural-born fool, nerveless, nincompoop, ninny, not all there, nutty, paralytic, paraplegic, pithless, pooped, powerless, quadriplegic, retarded, rubbery, sapless, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simp, simple, simpleminded, simpleton, simpletonian, sinewless, slack, slobbering, slow, slow-witted, soft, spineless, strengthless, stupid, subnormal, the crippled, the handicapped, thoughtless, tomfool, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, wacky, weak, weakly, wet, witless, zany

Etymology
From imbecillus:, literally “without a staff”.

Translations

 * Catalan: imbècil
 * Dutch: imbeciel
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