Word Meanings - IDIOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office. St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons. Jer. Taylor. 2. An unlearned, ignorant, or simple

Additional info about word: IDIOT

1. A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office. St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons. Jer. Taylor. 2. An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus. Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis. C. Blount. 3. A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent. Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shak. 4. A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach. Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IDIOT)

• Booby
• Idiot
• dunce
• numskull
• Driveller
• babbler
• dotard

Related words: (words related to IDIOT)

• IDIOTISH
  Like an idiot; foolish.
• IDIOTRY
  Idiocy. Bp. Warburton.
• BOOBYISH
  Stupid; dull.
• IDIOT
  1. A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office. St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons. Jer. Taylor. 2. An unlearned, ignorant, or simple
• IDIOTICON
  A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.
• DUNCE
  One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift. Note: The schoolmen were often called, after their great leader Duns Scotus, Dunsmen or
• BOOBY
  1. A dunce; a stupid fellow. A swimming bird related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species
• BABBLER
  A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on
• NUMSKULL
  A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
• IDIOTIZE
  To become stupid.
• IDIOTHERMIC
  Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.
• BABBLERY
  Babble. Sir T. More
• DOTARD
  One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior.
• IDIOTCY
  Idiocy.
• DUNCEDOM
  The realm or domain of dunces. Carlyle.
• DUNCERY
  Dullness; stupidity.
• IDIOTIC; IDIOTICAL
  1. Common; simple. Blackwall. 2. Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.
• IDIOTISM
  of a private person, the common or vulgar manner of speaking, Gr. 1. An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language. Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words
• IDIOTICALLY
  In a idiotic manner.
• IDIOTED
  Rendered idiotic; befooled. Tennyson.