Word Meanings - IMBECILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMBECILE)

• Childish
• Weak
• silly
• puerile
• infantine
• imbecile
• foolish
• trifling
• paltry
• trivial
• Foolish
• Senseless
• idiotic
• crazed
• shallow
• weak
• injudicious
• irrational
• absurd
• contemptible
• objectionable
• witless
• brainless
• preposterous
• ridiculous
• nonsensical
• simple
• Idiot
• Imbecile
• fool
• Infantile
• Puerile
• childish
• Senile
• Aged
• doting

Related words: (words related to IMBECILE)

• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• IRRATIONAL
  Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• DOTATION
  1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman. 2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.
• IDIOTISH
  Like an idiot; foolish.
• DOTISH
  Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• IDIOTRY
  Idiocy. Bp. Warburton.
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• NONSENSICAL
  Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.
• ABSURDNESS
  Absurdity.
• DOTANT
  A dotard. Shak.
• DOTTARD
  An old, decayed tree. Bacon.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• CRAZE-MILL; CRAZING-MILL
  A mill for grinding tin ore.
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• 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.
• TRIVIALNESS
  Quality or state of being trivial.
• SACERDOTAL
  Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs
• ENDOTHECIUM
  The inner lining of an another cell.
• SACERDOTALISM
  The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.
• CRASPEDOTE
  Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.
• BEDOTE
  To cause to dote; to deceive. Chaucer.
• EXTRADOTAL
  Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.