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imbécile — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blockhead noun A stupid, slow-witted person.
  • chump noun A foolish or gullible person; someone easily fooled or taken advantage of.
  • clot noun A thickened, partly solid lump formed from a liquid, especially blood.
  • dolt noun A stupid or slow-witted person.
  • dumbbell noun A short handheld weight used for strength training, with a load on each end.
  • dummy noun A model or replica of a person or object, used as a stand-in.
  • fatuous adj Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
  • fool noun A person who acts or thinks without good sense or judgment.
  • idiot noun A foolish or stupid person, or someone who makes a very poor decision.
  • imbecile noun An insulting term for a stupid or foolish person.
  • mutt noun A dog of mixed or uncertain breed.
  • plonker noun A man who sanctions sexual relationships between his girlfriend and his male friends.
  • saphead noun A simpleton, a stupid person.

Senses

imbécile is used for these senses in English:

  • all there Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all,‎ there.
  • blockhead (colloquial) A stupid person.
  • chump (colloquial, pejorative) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
  • clot A silly person.
  • dolt (pejorative) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
  • dumbbell (pejorative, slang) A stupid person.
  • dummy A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
  • fatuous Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.

chump — full definition

  1. noun A foolish or gullible person; someone easily fooled or taken advantage of.
  2. noun The thick, blunt end of something, such as a piece of wood or a cut of meat.
  3. verb To cheat or take advantage of someone.

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