idiot
//ˈɪdiət//
Forms
- Plural
- idiots
- Comparative
- more idiot
- Superlative
- most idiot
Definitions
1.A person of low general intelligence.
- Only an idiot would fail this exam.
- After failing a hat-trick of exams, the teacher called him an idiot.
2.A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
- We think that people who cycle without a helmet are idiots.
- He thought people who don't like cricket are idiots. He later got into fights with people who like football.
- “He’s an idiot – in terms of saying that. Everybody knows this. Everybody knows it. Nobody doubts it,” Biden said.
3.A proponent of intelligent design.(slang)
- Nor does any sane or rational person believe any enzyme fell together all at once purely by chance - that is the domain of creotards, IDiots, and theoloons.
1.Idiotic, stupid.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2880
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English idiote, ydiote, from Old French idiote (later idiot), from Latin idiota, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private”).