retard

Definition of retard in English English dictionary: a person with mental retardation; To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder
retard the motion of a ship.; retardation; delay; To stay back; a stupid person, or one who is slow to learn; To decelerate; to slow down; To be slow or dilatory to perform (something); To put off; to postpone
to retard a rupture between nations.; {v} to delay, hinder stop, stay back, puff to; cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate"; be delayed; {i} (Slang) person with mental retardation (derogatory); (Slang) stupid person, person who behaves foolishly (derogatory); delay, retardation, deceleration; a person of subnormal intelligence; cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate" be delayed; To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; opposed to accelerate; {f} decelerate, cause to slow down, delay, hinder; slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"; To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations; If something retards a process, or the development of something, it makes it happen more slowly. Continuing violence will retard negotiations over the country's future. = slow down; disapproval If you describe someone as a retard, you mean that they have not developed normally, either mentally or socially. What the hell do I want with an emotional retard?. to delay the development of something, or to make something happen more slowly than expected = slow down (retardare, from tardus ). an offensive word for a stupid person; lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"; r-tard
Randy: ... I'm not an r-tard.
retardation: A suspension which resolves upwards
retardation: The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance
retardation: That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction
retardation: Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity
retarded: Simple past tense and past participle of retard
retarded: Of a person or thing, stupid, dumb, or irrational
retarded: Of a person, having mental retardation
retarder: Something which retards or slows
The substance acted as a retarder to the chemical reaction because it radically changed the pH.
retardation: {n} the act of delaying, a hindrance
retarder: {n} one who obstructs, one who hinders
Retardation: suspension
Retarded: rt
retardation: The delay in propagation of a radio wave near the critical frequency caused by the slowing down of the wave by the ionosphere
retardation: The amount of time by which corresponding tidal phases grow later day by day (about 50 minutes)
retardation: a decrease in speed; "the deceleration of the arms race"
retardation: The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards
retardation: The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness
retardation: the extent to which something is delayed or held back
retardation: any agent that retards or delays or hinders; "flame-retardant"
retardation: The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; opposed to acceleration
retardation: Preferential retention of contaminants in the subsurface by one or more physical, chemical, or biological factors
retardation: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities the extent to which something is delayed or held back
retardation: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
retardation: the act of slowing down or falling behind
retardation: Retardation is the process of making something happen or develop more slowly, or the fact of being less well developed than other people or things of the same kind. other parents whose children had mental retardation
retardation: The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay
retardation: a method of resolution involving ascending from a note to the one immediately above it (e g from the major seventh note to the tonic) while sounding the remainder of the final chord throughout the transition
retardation: {i} limitedness or slowness of intellectual and/or emotional development; deceleration, act of slowing down; hindrance, impediment, something that causes a delay
retardation: the reduction in phase velocity while propagating in a medium
retarded: Delayed in development
retarded: relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development; "providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded
retarded: Past participle of retard; slowed
retarded: {s} limited or delayed in intellectual and/or emotional development, characterized by mental retardation
retarded: Under the influence of alcohol
retarded: Having mental retardation
retarded: Someone who is retarded is much less advanced mentally than most people of their age. a special school for mentally retarded children. less mentally developed than other people of the same age. Many people think that this use is rude and offensive
retarded: Past tense of retard; slowed
retarder: admixture used to slow down the hydration rate to allow more time for stamping Add on site to implement "step retardation "
retarder: An additive used in screen printing to slow the drying rate of an ink
retarder: Device used to assist brakes in slowing the vehicle The most common type of retarder on over-the-road trucks manipulates the engine's valves to create engine drag (This type is commonly referred to as "Jake Brake" because the pred ominant manufacturer is Jacobs Vehicle Equipment Co ) Other types of retarders include exhaust retarders, transmission-mounted hydraulic retarders and axle-mounted electromagnetic retarders
retarder: Any of various devices, as a helix of flat metal strip, introduced into a boiler tube to increase the heating effect of the fire
retarder: A solvent added to a paint to slow down its evaporation time
retarder: An additive used in screen printing to slow the rate of drying in an ink
retarder: {i} hindrance, person or thing that delays, person or thing that causes a slowdown
retarder: One who, or that which, retards
retarder: A substance, as potassium bromide, added to a developer to retard its action
retarder: A device for introducing a phase delay, such as half-wave or quarter-wave, between two orthogonally polarized components of an electromagnetic wave
retarder: A material designed to prevent the passage of water vapor through a roof or wall
retarder: A slow drying solvent used to slow down evaporation and hence slow the drying of a paint coat
retarders: plural of retarder
retarding: present participle of retard
retards: a dink
retards: third-person singular of retard
retards: plural of , retard

retard

Hyphenation

re·tard

Turkish pronunciation

ritärd

Synonyms

delay, hold-up, retardation, idiot, tard, imbecile, mental deficient, moron, learning difficulties, decelerate, hinder, slow, slow down, postpone, put off

Antonyms

accelerate, speed, speed up, come forward, advance, help, push

Pronunciation

/rēˈtärd/ /riːˈtɑːrd/

Etymology

[ ri-'tärd ] (verb.) 15th century. From Middle English Anglo-Norman or Latin, from Anglo-Norman retarder, from Latin retardāre (“to retard”), from re- + tardus (“slow”)