单词 | idiocy |
释义 | idiocy (once / 5763 pages) n Idiocy is extreme stupidity. If you skied down a dangerous slope with little experience and no helmet, your friends would be right to comment on your idiocy. When someone behaves in a foolish way, showing no evidence that they've thought about their actions, you can call it idiocy. You could scold your little brother, "Your idiocy in the bouncy house made it impossible for anyone else to have fun at the party," or criticize the idiocy of your governor's decision to refuse federal funds for school lunches. The noun idiot came before idiocy, and both words originally had psychiatric meanings that are now obsolete. WORD FAMILYidiocy: idiocies+/idiot: idiocy, idiotic, idiots/idiotic: idiotically USAGE EXAMPLESHe literally can’t tell the difference between irony and idiocy. Salon(Dec 31, 2016) Still, Trump should recognize a sideshow when he sees it - and assign some very junior member of his communications team to mocking such idiocy. Washington Times(Nov 30, 2016) A catastrophic idiocy has informed Europe’s favoritism toward diesel cars: In return for trivial CO2 gains, it got dirtier air in its cities. Wall Street Journal(Nov 09, 2016) n extreme mental retardation Syn|Hyper amentia backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality lack of normal development of intellectual capacities |
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