Moronic

4 definitions found

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

  moronic \moronic\ adj.
     having a mental age of between eight and twelve years; also
     used as a derogatory term.
     [WordNet 1.5]

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



  Moron \Mo"ron\ (m[=o]"r[o^]n), n. [Gr. mw^ros foolish, stupid.]
     1. (Pedagogy) A mentally retarded person whose intellectual
        development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year
        of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no
        further development; an adult having the mental
        development of an 8-to-12-year old. A moron is considered
        capable of doing routine work under supervision.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
  
     2. Hence, a very stupid person. [informal, derogatory]
        [PJC] -- {mo*ron"ic} adj. -- {mo*ron"ic*al*ly} adv. --
        {mo"ron*ism} n. -- {mo*ron"i*ty} n.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  moronic
       adj : having a mental age of between eight and twelve years

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

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