idiotic

idiotic
adj
1. asinine, anserine, foolish, idiotical; silly, absurd, inane, fatuous; senseless, nonsensical, crackbrained, Scot. doiled, Sl. cockeyed, Scot, and North Eng. glaikit; ridiculous, laughable, risible, derisible, ludicrous, Sl. for the birds; childish, puerile, immature.
2. stupid, Inf. dumb, Inf. dopey, Inf. moronic, empty-headed, unintelligent, imbecilic, oxlike; dull, inexpressive, expressionless; addlepated, addleheaded, addlebrained, muddled, muddleheaded; dull-witted, Sl. dimwitted, slow-witted, half-witted, witless, unwit-ty, fat-witted; mindless, Rare. insulse, brainless, fatui-tous; dense, thick, bovine, obtuse, Boeotian, stolid, oafish, loutish; cloddish, lumpish, blunt; doltish, blockish, asslike, blockheaded, dunderheaded, noodle-headed; boneheaded, wooden-headed, thickheaded, thickskulled; obstinate, stubborn, intractable, mulish, obdurate, unyielding.
3. crazy, crazed, Sl. bughouse, Sl. kooky, Inf. potty, Sl. nuts, Inf. nutty, daft, Inf. daffy; insane, mad, demented, lunatic, deranged; of unsound mind, Latin, non compos mentis; unbalanced, touched, Inf. half-baked, unhinged; not all there, not quite right, not right upstairs, Inf. mental, Inf. cracked; out of one's head, out of one's mind, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare; maniacal, wild, raving, hysterical, frenzied, delirious, berserk; All Sl. balmy, dippy, batty, cuckoo, buggy, screwy, wacky, goofy, loony.
4. simple-minded, simple, Sl. bird-brained, weak-minded, weak-headed, feeble-minded; harebrained, giddy, mercurial, reckless; absent-minded, scatterbrained, confused, bemused; featherheaded, featherbrained, rattleheaded, rattlebrained, light-minded, light-headed; empty, void, vacant, vacuous, blank, unoccupied.
5. dazed, moon-struck, possessed, infatuated; peculiar, strange, odd, eccentric, pixilated; irrational, illogical, unreasonable; unreasoning, unthinking, insensate, incogitant, thoughtless.

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  • Idiotic — Id i*ot ic, Idiotical Id i*ot ic*al, a. [L. idioticus ignorant, Gr. ?: cf. F. idiotique. See {Idiot}.] 1. Common; simple. [Obs.] Blackwall. [1913 Webster] 2. Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • idiotic — index fatuous, ludicrous, non compos mentis, obtuse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • idiotic — (adj.) 1713, from L.L. idioticus uneducated, ignorant, in classical Latin, of an ordinary person, from Gk. idiotikos unprofessional, unskilled; not done by rules of art, unprofessional, from idiotes (see IDIOT (Cf. idiot)). Idiotical is from… …   Etymology dictionary

  • idiotic — [adj] very stupid asinine, batty*, birdbrained*, crazy, daffy*, daft, dull, dumb, fatuous, foolhardy, foolish, harebrained*, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, insane, lunatic, moronic, senseless, silly, squirrelly*, thickwitted*, unintelligent; concept …   New thesaurus

  • idiotic — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ very stupid or foolish. DERIVATIVES idiotically adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • idiotic — [id΄ē ät′ik] adj. [L idioticus, uneducated, ignorant < Gr idiōtikos, private, peculiar, rude] of, having the nature of, or characteristic of an idiot; very foolish or stupid idiotically adv …   English World dictionary

  • idiotic — adj. idiotic to + inf. (they were idiotic to do that) * * * [ˌɪdɪ ɒtɪk] idiotic to + inf. (they were idiotic to do that) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • idiotic — [[t]ɪ̱diɒ̱tɪk[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you call someone or something idiotic, you mean that they are very stupid or silly. What an idiotic thing to say! Syn: ridiculous Derived words: idiotically [[t]ɪ̱diɒ̱tɪkli[/t]] ADV ...his… …   English dictionary

  • idiotic — idiotically, adv. idioticalness, n. /id ee ot ik/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an idiot. 2. senselessly foolish or stupid: an idiotic remark. Also, idiotical. [1705 15; < LL idioticus < Gk idiotikós private, ignorant. See… …   Universalium

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