Definitions for imbecile

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imbecile im·be·cile

Spelling: [im-buh-sil, -suh l or, esp. British, -seel]

IPA: /ˈɪm bə sɪl, -səl or, esp. British, -ˌsil/

Imbecile is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in imbecile (bceeiilm).

Definitions for imbecile

noun

1. Informal. a dunce; blockhead; dolt:
2. Psychology. (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) a person of the second order in a former and discarded 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.

adjective

1. Informal. stupid; silly; absurd.
2. Usually Offensive. showing mental feebleness or incapacity.
3. Archaic. weak or feeble.

Origin of imbecile

1540-50; earlier imbecill Latin imbēcillus weak; -ile replacing -ill by confusion with suffix -ile

Examples for imbecile

To say that Columbus felt sure that he saw a light is to pronounce him an imbecile.

In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile.

She is there still, little better than an imbecile, I regret to say, and with no hope of recovery.

The President was represented as an imbecile, utterly devoid of statesmanship.

He did not answer, but the other imbecile, Josiah, answered for him.

He flew into a passion, disowned his discovery, and called himself an imbecile.

The imbecile baron then got out; his shoulder was out of joint.

He spent a whole evening measuring this imbecile's facial angle.

A man, aged 22, the son of an inebriate, with one imbecile sister.

I do not know whose heads are criminal, but I think I know whose are imbecile.