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How to pronounce imbecile in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms idiotic, imbecilic
Derivation imbecility
Type Words
Synonyms changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, moron, retard
Type of simple, simpleton
Has types mongoloid
Derivation imbecilic

Examples of imbecile

imbecile
Peas in a pod, these two geniuses, when it comes to the imbecile campaign smear.
From the independent.co.uk
You can not use a cold week in Britain to disprove global warming you imbecile.
From the independent.co.uk
Just because you elected a total imbecile to run this country is not that bad.
From the battleland.blogs.time.com
Once precedent is set, you're no more than a drooling imbecile for bringing it up.
From the denverpost.com
Anyone who says this is crap is just a typical tory voting racist imbecile.
From the guardian.co.uk
West is an imbecile who's annihilation I will savour at the next election.
From the theargus.co.uk
Is Stanford, Thorpe or a subeditor responsible for this imbecile nonsense?
From the guardian.co.uk
Cruise certainly didn't need to jump up and down on a sofa to prove he's an imbecile.
From the time.com
I'm not sure whether he is a political genius or a nailed on imbecile?
From the thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
More examples
  • Having a mental age of three to seven years
  • Idiot: a person of subnormal intelligence
  • (imbecility) retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot
  • (imbecility) stupidity: a stupid mistake
  • Imbecile is a term for a degree of mental retardation, as well as for a type of criminal. It arises from the Latin word imbecillus, meaning weak, or weak-minded. "Imbecile" was once applied to people with an IQ of 26-50, between "moron" (IQ of 51-70) and "idiot" (IQ of 0-25).
  • (Imbecility) Mental retardation (MR) is a generalized disorder, characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors with onset before the age of 18. It has historically been defined as an Intelligence Quotient score under 70. ...
  • 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; A fool, an idiot
  • (imbecility) The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind; Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc
  • (IMBECILITY) med. jur. A weakness of the mind, caused by the absence or obliteration of natural or acquired ideas; or it is described to be an abnormal deficiency either in those faculties which acquaint us with the qualities and ordinary relations of things, or in those which furnish us with ...