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idiot

noun
/ˈɪdiət/UK/ˈɪd͡ʒət/

Etymology

From Middle English idiote, ydiote, from Old French idiote (later idiot), from Latin idiota, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private”). Doublet of idiota. By surface analysis, idi- + -ot.

  1. derived from ἰδιώτης
  2. derived from idiota
  3. derived from idiote
  4. inherited from idiote

Definitions

  1. A person of low general intelligence.

    • Only an idiot would fail this exam.
    • After failing a hat-trick of exams, the teacher called him an idiot.

  2. A person who makes stupid decisions

    A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.

    • He thought people who don't like cricket are idiots. He later got into fights with people who like football.
    • We think that people who cycle without a helmet are idiots.
    • “He’s an idiot – in terms of saying that. Everybody knows this. Everybody knows it. Nobody doubts it,” Biden said.

  3. A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop…

    A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.

    • Idiots were thought to be peculiarly under the care of the Deity, and it was believed that those who treated them kindly would be blessed.
    • It is an offence for a man to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Idiotic, stupid.

    2. A proponent of intelligent design.

      • Nor does any sane or rational person believe any enzyme fell together all at once purely by chance - that is the domain of creotards, IDiots, and theoloons.
      • Thus all sciences, including evolution, are guided by the available objective physical evidence while all creationism regularly rejects any implications of objective physical evidence which does not support their IDiot Bibliolatry.

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Derived

cidiot, covidiot, dipshidiot, Floridiot, idiocracy, IDiot, idiotacy, idiot board, idiot box, idiot card, idiotcy, idioted, idiot end, idiotery, idiotese, idiotfest, idiot girl, idiotic, idioticy, idiotish, idiotism, idiotist, idiotize, idiot light, idiotlike, idiotly, idiot mittens, idiotness, idiotor, idiotorial, idiot-proof, idiotry, idiot sandwich, idiot-savant, idiot sheet, idiot stick, idiot string, idiot tape, idiot tax, Idiotville · +12 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for idiot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA