noun. A person who is considered foolish or stupid.

noun. A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.

To make imbecile; weaken.

To embezzle.

Without physical strength; feeble; impotent; helpless.

Mentally feeble: fatuous; having the mental faculties undeveloped or greatly impaired. See imbecility.

Marked by mental feebleness or incapacity; indicating weakness of mind; inane; stupid: as, imbecile efforts; an imbecile speech.

Synonyms and Foolish, driveling, idiotic. See debility.

noun. One who is imbecile.

adjective. Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded.

noun. One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind; -- sometimes used as a pejorative term.

noun. A person with a degree of mental retardation between that of an idiot and a moron; in a former classification of mentally retarded person, it applied to a person with an adult mental age of from four to eith years, and an I.Q. of from 26 to 50.

transitive verb. To weaken; to make imbecile.

noun. 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.

noun. A fool, an idiot.

noun. a person of subnormal intelligence

adjective. having a mental age of three to seven years

"Chagrined as he was at what he termed his imbecile stupidity in not knowing his own heart all these past months, and convinced, as he also was, that Alice and Calderwell cared for each other, he could see no way for him but to play the part of a man of kindliness and honor, leaving a clear field for his preferred rival, and bringing no shadow of regret to mar the happiness of the girl he loved."

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