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单词 idiot
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Definition of idiot in English:

idiot

noun ˈɪdɪətˈɪdiət
informal
  • 1A stupid person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Which, all in all, does tend to make me look very much like an incomparable idiot.
    • I felt like such an idiot that morning, like a stupid dog that would follow him around wherever he went.
    • First of all, that's a stupid name, those children are idiots.
    • But unfortunately people did turn up, the stupid idiots, so I had to do my show.
    • If he's such an idiot, how stupid are your guys to be losing to him this repeatedly?
    • Yet, you are too stupid and self-absorbed to realize just how much of an idiot you are.
    • Instead, it's filled with a menagerie of idiots doing stupid things.
    • They think of me as an idiot, a fool, some disheveled thing rather than one of them.
    • Stupid idiots that know they are going to die but don't care anyway.
    • According to reports, at least half of the one hundred sheer blinding idiots stupid enough to mount the fencing and jump needed treatment from paramedics.
    • So not only was it frustrating enough having stupid idiots bashing into us, we got caught on the edge of a fight that broke out involving about 15 guys.
    • Did we have idiots regulating morons or mice monitoring vipers?
    • There is nothing to be proud of or there is nothing clever about what these stupid idiots are doing.
    • He and Paul were running around like idiots, acting more stupid than normal with the promise of summer so soon.
    • It appears that we consumers would cease to be stupid, trusting idiots if the finance industry stopped being so obfuscating when persuading us to spend our money with them.
    • And he is not coming into court acting like an idiot and being stupid on the stand.
    • The potential for chaos and lawsuits and cranky alumni is there but these aren't idiots you have hired and people aren't as stupid online as you fear.
    • It is not a laughing matter, and it is certainly not caused by working with someone - as these stupid little idiots implied.
    • Granted, they are still smarter than us but its one thing to be an idiot and quite another to choose to marry an idiot.
    • The idiot students who got the broadcast internships are the same idiots who now have the broadcast jobs.
    Synonyms
    fool, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod
    informal dope, ninny, chump, dimwit, goon, dumbo, dummy, dum-dum, dumb-bell, loon, dork, jackass, bonehead, fathead, numbskull, dunderhead, chucklehead, knucklehead, muttonhead, pudding-head, thickhead, wooden-head, airhead, pinhead, lamebrain, pea-brain, birdbrain, zombie, jerk, nerd, dipstick, donkey, noodle
    British informal nit, nitwit, twit, numpty, clot, plonker, berk, prat, pillock, wally, git, wazzock, divvy, nerk, twerp, twonk, charlie, mug, muppet
    Scottish informal nyaff, balloon, sumph, gowk
    Irish informal gobdaw
    North American informal schmuck, bozo, boob, lamer, turkey, schlepper, chowderhead, dumbhead, goofball, goof, goofus, galoot, lummox, klutz, putz, schlemiel, sap, gink, cluck, clunk, ding-dong, dingbat, wiener, weeny, dip, simp, spud, coot, palooka, poop, squarehead, yo-yo, dingleberry
    US informal wing nut
    Australian/New Zealand informal drongo, dill, alec, galah, nong, bogan, poon, boofhead
    South African informal mompara
    British vulgar slang knobhead
    North American vulgar slang asshat
    archaic tomfool, noddy, clodpole, loggerhead, spoony, mooncalf
    1. 1.1archaic A person of low intelligence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Rumors have been current that the guardian of the Moscow Cemetery kept an idiot confined in chains.
      • Authorized in 1851, the New York State Asylum for Idiots received its first "pupils" in 1883.
      • In 1324 idiots and lunatics had different rights in law, but now these words have lost their more precise meanings and become little more than insults.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a person of low intelligence): via Old French from Latin idiota 'ignorant person', from Greek idiōtēs 'private person, layman, ignorant person', from idios 'own, private'.

  • This comes via Latin idiota ‘ignorant person’, from Greek idiōtēs ‘private person, layman, ignorant person’ based on idios ‘own, private’, and reflecting the attitude in the ancient world to those who did not take an active part in public life.

 
 

Definition of idiot in US English:

idiot

nounˈidēətˈɪdiət
informal
  • 1A stupid person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is nothing to be proud of or there is nothing clever about what these stupid idiots are doing.
    • Which, all in all, does tend to make me look very much like an incomparable idiot.
    • Instead, it's filled with a menagerie of idiots doing stupid things.
    • It appears that we consumers would cease to be stupid, trusting idiots if the finance industry stopped being so obfuscating when persuading us to spend our money with them.
    • I felt like such an idiot that morning, like a stupid dog that would follow him around wherever he went.
    • Did we have idiots regulating morons or mice monitoring vipers?
    • Yet, you are too stupid and self-absorbed to realize just how much of an idiot you are.
    • He and Paul were running around like idiots, acting more stupid than normal with the promise of summer so soon.
    • Stupid idiots that know they are going to die but don't care anyway.
    • They think of me as an idiot, a fool, some disheveled thing rather than one of them.
    • First of all, that's a stupid name, those children are idiots.
    • It is not a laughing matter, and it is certainly not caused by working with someone - as these stupid little idiots implied.
    • So not only was it frustrating enough having stupid idiots bashing into us, we got caught on the edge of a fight that broke out involving about 15 guys.
    • The idiot students who got the broadcast internships are the same idiots who now have the broadcast jobs.
    • Granted, they are still smarter than us but its one thing to be an idiot and quite another to choose to marry an idiot.
    • But unfortunately people did turn up, the stupid idiots, so I had to do my show.
    • The potential for chaos and lawsuits and cranky alumni is there but these aren't idiots you have hired and people aren't as stupid online as you fear.
    • If he's such an idiot, how stupid are your guys to be losing to him this repeatedly?
    • According to reports, at least half of the one hundred sheer blinding idiots stupid enough to mount the fencing and jump needed treatment from paramedics.
    • And he is not coming into court acting like an idiot and being stupid on the stand.
    Synonyms
    fool, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod
    1. 1.1archaic A person of low intelligence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Rumors have been current that the guardian of the Moscow Cemetery kept an idiot confined in chains.
      • Authorized in 1851, the New York State Asylum for Idiots received its first "pupils" in 1883.
      • In 1324 idiots and lunatics had different rights in law, but now these words have lost their more precise meanings and become little more than insults.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a person of low intelligence): via Old French from Latin idiota ‘ignorant person’, from Greek idiōtēs ‘private person, layman, ignorant person’, from idios ‘own, private’.

 
 
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