imbecile
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Is imbecile a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A person with limited mental capacity who can perform tasks and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five- to seven-year-old child.Examples: "It is an offence for a man to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile."obsolete
2. (derogatory) A fool, an idiot.Examples: "VLADIMIR: Because he wouldn't save them. / ESTRAGON: From hell? / VLADIMIR: Imbecile! From death."; "“A rat picked up a drink can and threw it at me?” yelled Mr Big. “A big rat, guv’nor? One of them super-rats?” suggested Thumbs. “It landed on my head, you imbecile!”"derogatory
adj (English)
1. (dated) Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; especially, mentally weak.Examples: "hospitals for the imbecile and insane"; "And then that imbecile crowd down on the deck started their little fun, and I could see nothing more for smoke."dated
Definition source: Wiktionary