usage note This may be used pejoratively, as an insult. It is a weak insult, however, and between close friends, family members, or lovers, is often completely nonaggressive.
A medical or psychological term meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling
meant originally a private person, one not engaged in any public office Hence Jeremy Taylor says, "Humility is a duty in great ones, as well as in idiots" (private persons) The Greeks have the expressions, "a priest or an idiot" (layman), "a poet or an idiot" (prose-writer) As idiots were not employed in public offices, the term became synonymous with incompetency to fulfil the duties thereof (Greek, idiotes ) (See Baron )
disapproval If you call someone an idiot, you are showing that you think they are very stupid or have done something very stupid. I knew I'd been an idiot to stay there = fool
Any player who, when being in the final stage of a level, loses against the personal enemy of myself, thus allowing this player to win the level and the game Any player who, after being hit lethally by my ingenious strategics, droppes a bomb, killing me as well
A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent
A person with learning disabilities The term was part of a standard classification of people with learning disabilities in the nineteenth century which implied that a person had a severe learning difficulty