idiot
Speech parts
1. idiot - Noun
2. idiot - Adjective
Meaning
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
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 fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Show all synonymsAntonyms
Show all antonymsHypernyms
Hyponyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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.
Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
One idiot threw a stone in the well, thousand wise people could not get it out.
An idiot will cross an ox with an elephant.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.