单词 | imbecile |
释义 | imbecile —imbecilely, adv. /im"beuh sil, -seuhl/ or, esp. Brit., /-seel'/, n. 1. Psychol. a person of the second order in a former classification of mental retardation, above the level of idiocy, having a mental age of seven or eight years and an intelligence quotient of 25 to 50. 2. a dunce; blockhead; dolt. adj. 3. mentally feeble. 4. showing mental feebleness or incapacity. 5. stupid; silly; absurd. 6. Archaic. weak or feeble. [1540-50; earlier imbecill < L imbecillus weak; -ile r. -ill by confusion with suffix -ILE] |
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