/ɪmbəˈsiːl/ · noun
(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..
It is an offence for a man to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile.
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!”
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.
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Imbecile means (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..
Common synonyms include cretin, stupid, idiot, retard.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It is an offence for a man to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile.
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