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What (who) is IMBECILIC - definition
imbecilic
adj. imbecilic to + inf. (it was imbecilic to do that)
imbecile
TERM ONCE USED IN PSYCHIATRY TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE OF MODERATELY LOW INTELLIGENCE
Imbecility; Imbeciles; Embecile
(imbeciles)
1.
If you call someone an imbecile, you are showing that you think they are stupid or have done something stupid.
I don't want to deal with these imbeciles any longer.
= idiot
N-COUNT [disapproval]
2.
Imbecile means stupid.
It was an imbecile thing to do.
ADJ: ADJ n
imbecile
TERM ONCE USED IN PSYCHIATRY TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE OF MODERATELY LOW INTELLIGENCE
Imbecility; Imbeciles; Embecile
I. a.
1.
Weak, feeble, infirm, helpless, decrepit.
2.
Foolish, witless, drivelling, idiotic, fatuous.
II. n.
1.
Dotard, feeble person.
2.
Idiot, natural, congenital imbecile.
Examples of use of IMBECILIC
1. The minuscule excuse of soldiers being abducted and the border assault is truly imbecilic.
2. I saw someone laughing at me and I thought: ‘You imbecilic weed.
3. That imbecilic attempt to intervene in the natural course of events to avert recession is in utter contrast to the decision to nationalize the mortgage companies.
4. One of his most imbecilic daubings depicts a monkey wearing a sandwich board with "lying to the police is never wrong" written on it.
5. The suggestion that individuals are driven to kill people because they have "nothing to do" is the kind of imbecilic platitude that is straight out of the lexicon of the cultural studies department at the University of Penge.