idiot 
idi·ot (id′ē ət)
noun
- Obsolete a retarded person mentally equal or inferior to a child two years old
- a very foolish or stupid person
Etymology: ME idiote < OFr < L idiota, ignorant and common person < Gr idiōtēs, layman, ignorant person < idios, one's own, peculiar: see idio-
Possessives
- ward: A two-storey central spine containing the dining-hall and chapel led to the infirmary and idiots ' wards at the rear.
- guide: Can anyone help with an idiots ' guide, please?
Converse of object
- gibber: The argument about whether his tax cuts are a promise, guarantee or strategy made him look like a gibbering idiot.
- bumble: The ads are to be fronted by Michael Winner, but this time as a bumbling idiot.
- grin: To stop ourselves from looking like grinning idiots we needed ' Cold ' .
- let: Comment Keep up the good work and don't let these idiots stop you from publishing great articles!
Adjective modifier
- blithering: The people at the Sci-Fi channel must be blithering idiots to cancel such a great series.
- mindless: An arch criminal named The Vampire uses a drug to turn a woman into a mindless idiot.
- drunken: To abandon this group of drunken idiots on an unknown island without supervision?
- stupid: Kid A: You're a stupid idiot Kid B: I'll kick your head in!
- bloody: You're just moving money around you bloody idiot.
Modifies a noun
- savant: The existence of idiots savants, prodigies and other exceptional individuals.
- proof: You want people to get in touch, make it as obvious and idiot proof as possible.
- boy: For once I have some real news - idiot boy has finally, officially moved out.
- guide: I would prefer a step by step idiots guide on how to use the site.
- box: As the whole of America leaves the idiot box running, they unwittingly share a truly communal experience as they gather in silent contemplation.
- driver: Then Friday night a month ago I met another idiot driver.
Noun used with modifier
- village: Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise?
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
The computer is a fast idiot, it has no imagination; it cannot originate action. It is, and will remain, only a tool to man.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own; And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy, And who'doesn't think she dances, but would rather like to try'; And that singular anomaly, the lady novelistö I don't think she'd be missedöI'm sure she'd not be missed!
'If the law supposes that,'said Mr Bumble'the law is a assöa idiot.'
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Browse dictionary entries near idiot
- ‹ idiosyncratic
- ‹ idiosyncrasy
- ‹ idioplasm
- ‹ idiopathic
- ‹ idiomorphic
- ‹ idiomatic
- ‹ idiom
- ‹ idiolect
- ‹ idiocy
- ‹ idioblast
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