idiot

[Id·i*ot]

The noun idiot means a person of lower than normal intelligence or someone who does foolish things, like your neighbor who car got stolen because he left it unlocked with the key in the ignition. What an idiot.

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A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

Noun
a person of subnormal intelligence


n.
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

n.
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.

n.
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.

n.
A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.


Idiot

Id"i*ot , n. [F. idiot, L. idiota an uneducated, ignorant, ill-informed person, Gr. , also and orig., a private person, not holding public office, fr. proper, peculiar. See Idiom.] 1. A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office. [Obs.]
St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons.
2. An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus. [Obs.]
Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis.
3. 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.
Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
4. A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.
Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame?

A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

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Usage Examples

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

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Other Usage Examples

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

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