Idiotic vs. Idiot — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Idiotic and Idiot
ADVERTISEMENT
Definitions
Idiotic
Showing foolishness or stupidity.
Idiot
An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person. 'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers.
Idiotic
Exhibiting profound intellectual disability. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
Idiot
A stupid person.
Idiotic
(of a person or animal) Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy.
ADVERTISEMENT
Idiot
A person who is considered foolish or stupid.
Idiotic
(of an action) Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish
Idiot
A person with profound intellectual disability having a mental age below three years and generally unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
Idiotic
Common; simple.
Idiot
(pejorative) A person of low general intelligence.
ADVERTISEMENT
Idiotic
Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.
Idiot
(pejorative) A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
We think that people who cycle without a helmet are idiots.
Idiotic
Insanely irresponsible;
An idiotic idea
Idiot
A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.
Idiotic
Completely devoid of wisdom or good sense;
The absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework
That's a cockeyed idea
Ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer
A contribution so small as to be laughable
It is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion
A preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history
Her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous
Idiot
(uncommon) idiotic, stupid
Idiotic
Having a mental age of three to seven years
Idiot
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons.
Idiot
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
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.
Idiot
A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool. In a former classification of mentally retarded people, idiot designated a person whose adult level of intelligence was equivalent to that of a three-year old or younger; this corresponded with an I.Q. level of approximately 25 or less.
Life . . . is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.
Idiot
A fool; a simpleton; - a term of reproach.
Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame?
Idiot
A person of subnormal intelligence
