Idiot
['ɪdɪət]
Definition
(n.) A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
(n.) An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fool, natural, natural fool.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Imbecile, fool
ANT:Luminary, sage, authority
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Definition
n. one deficient in intellect: a foolish or unwise person.—adj. afflicted with idiocy: idiotic.—v.t. to make idiotic—ns. Id′iocy Id′iotcy state of being an idiot: imbecility: folly.—adjs. Idiot′ic -al pertaining to or like an idiot: foolish.—adv. Idiot′ically.—adj. Idiot′ish idiotic.—n. Id′iotism the state of being an idiot.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Idiots in a dream, foretells disagreements and losses. To dream that you are an idiot, you will feel humiliated and downcast over the miscarriage of plans. To see idiotic children, denotes affliction and unhappy changes in life.
Typist: Zamenhof
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action but 'pervades and regulates the whole. ' He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
Checker: Muriel
Unserious Contents or Definition
From Eng. idea, and out. One who is just out of ideas.
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Examples
- Not quite an idiot--eh? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Laughing and chattering like the idiot I was fast becoming I fell upon his prostrate form my fingers feeling for his dead throat. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They mean to make either an idiot or a maniac of him, and take out a commission of lunacy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Turn the idiot out, says he, looking my way. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Dan said, Confound the idiot! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We can tolerate the Oracle very easily, but we have a poet and a good-natured enterprising idiot on board, and they do distress the company. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She's an idiot, a wanderer in her mind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You are a chit and a little idiot,' returned Bella, 'or you wouldn't make such a dolly speech. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Drive on, boys,' cried the testy old gentleman; 'don't waste any more time with that old idiot! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Even poor little Clarence, the born idiot of the family, is the most agreeable and most endearing blockhead! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If her admirers only _told_ her that she was an angel, she would let them _treat_ her like an idiot. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Who was the blundering idiot who said that fine words butter no parsnips? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They see the long-buried prisoner disinterred, a maniac or an idiot! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Much he knew about peerless beauties, a mean, miserable idiot! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Hold your tongue, you doting idiot! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- What right have such men to represent Christianity--as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly--as if-- Mary checked herself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Idiots are especially apt at this kind of imitation; it affects outward acts but not the meaning of their performance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- May the Devil carry away these idiots! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He is like the fine old Crichley portraits before the idiots came in. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here there is nothing but idiots and cowards. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I know more about Nature than half your scientific idiots with their books. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then idiots talk,' said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, 'of Energy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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