Idiotic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Idiotic \Id`i*ot"ic\, Idiotical \Id`i*ot"ic*al\, a. [L.
     idioticus ignorant, Gr. ?: cf. F. idiotique. See {Idiot}.]
     1. Common; simple. [Obs.] --Blackwall.
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     2. Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy;


        foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or
        action.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  idiotic
       adj 1: insanely irresponsible; "an idiotic idea" [syn: {crackbrained}]
       2: completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; "the absurd
          excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed
          idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical
          answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it
          is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous
          attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited
          assumption of universal interest in her rather dull
          children was ridiculous" [syn: {absurd}, {cockeyed}, {derisory},
           {laughable}, {ludicrous}, {nonsensical}, {preposterous},
          {ridiculous}]
       3: having a mental age of three to seven years [syn: {imbecile},
           {imbecilic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "idiotic":
     apish, arrested, asinine, babbling, backward, batty, befooled,
     beguiled, besotted, blithering, brainless, buffoonish, burbling,
     cockeyed, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, credulous, cretinistic,
     cretinous, daffy, daft, dazed, dithering, dizzy, doting, driveling,
     drooling, dumb, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded,
     foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, half-baked,
     half-witted, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inept, infatuated, insane,
     kooky, loony, mad, maudlin, maundering, mentally defective,
     mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded,
     mongoloid, moronic, not all there, nutty, retarded, sappy, screwy,
     senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian,
     slobbering, stupid, subnormal, thoughtless, wacky, wet, witless