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Idiotic   /ˌɪdiˈɑtɪk/   Listen
Idiotic

adjective
1.
Insanely irresponsible.  Synonym: crackbrained.
2.
Incongruous;inviting ridicule.  Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous.  "That's a cockeyed idea" , "Ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer" , "A contribution so small as to be laughable" , "It is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion" , "A preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history" , "Her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"
3.
Having a mental age of three to seven years.  Synonyms: imbecile, imbecilic.






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"Idiotic" Quotes from Famous Books



... try. I'll show those girls I can do something, though I am the youngest! Oh, I say! I've only just remembered that Winnie'll be the under-mistress. I'll have to call her 'Miss Gascoyne' whenever I speak to her. How perfectly idiotic! I'm sure I shall laugh. I wonder if Miss Roscoe's told her yet? What a surprise it would be for her to come into the room ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

... the devil is it?" he asked at last, his face red, his lips quivering. "What do you mean by rushing in, in this—idiotic fashion?" ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice

... darkness about Lee, his army, his movements, and his plans. And all this while the country, the people, is kept officially ignorant of its honor, of its fate. All publicity and communication is suppressed—not to inform thereby the enemy of our movements. How idiotic, how silly! As if the march and the movements of an army of one hundred thousand men could be kept secret from a vigilant and desperate enemy, and the enemy wanted to read the papers ...
— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski

... In the car, the doctor, completely overwhelmed, sat with his arms folded on his breast, gazing with idiotic fixedness upon some imaginary point in space. Kennedy was frightful to behold. He was rolling his head from right to left like a wild beast in ...
— Five Weeks in a Balloon • Jules Verne

... mortal for a gentleman's ears, the like of which no Soplica had ever heard, Thaddeus trembled, and his face grew pale as that of a corpse. Stamping his foot and biting his lips, he muttered, "Idiotic woman!" ...
— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz


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