Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- adjective Exhibiting profound mental retardation. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Uncultured; plain; simple. See extract under idiotical.
- Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; afflicted with idiocy; having the quality of idiocy; very foolish; stupid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Common; simple.
- adjective Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to or resembling an
idiot ; afflicted withidiocy . - adjective Having the quality of idiocy; very
foolish ;stupid ;nonsensical .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a mental age of three to seven years
- adjective incongruous;inviting ridicule
- adjective insanely irresponsible
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word idiotic.
Examples
-
Is that what you call the idiotic gossip you report about?
#33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010
-
Is that what you call the idiotic gossip you report about?
#33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010
-
Is that what you call the idiotic gossip you report about?
#33 Killer Connections FRANKLIN W. DIXON 2010
-
Both protested against what they called my idiotic kindness, but their protests were half-hearted.
A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928
-
Within the week I had repented of what I termed my idiotic quixotism, and for precisely nine days after that I cursed my folly.
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
-
David Denby, the critic from the New Yorker, announced that his review of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" would be published in the coming week's issue, a full eight days before the embargo date to which critics belonging to the New York Film Critics Circle agreed to hold their verdicts. letter to Rudin, Denby largely blamed both the studio's schedule -- "Grown-ups are ignored for much of the year, cast out like downsized workers, and then given eight good movies all at once in the last five weeks of the year," he wrote -- and his magazine's double issue conflict with the NYFCC's moved up awards voting schedule this year, which he called "idiotic" and said he "furiously opposed."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
-
As for the suggestion of not using any (or live) bait for fishing, that's just plain idiotic and ridiculous.
-
Reggie the only source he could possibly have for something so stupid and obviously wrong and idiotic is his lower torso
Think Progress » Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers. 2010
-
Personally Dick being Batman is just plain idiotic, and boring.
-
As for the suggestion of not using any (or live) bait for fishing, that's just plain idiotic and ridiculous.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.