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Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.
Alafair Burke

Meaning of "idiotic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IDIOTIC

idiotic  [ˌɪdɪˈɒtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IDIOTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Idiotic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IDIOTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Idiot

An idiot, dolt, or dullard is an intellectually disabled person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. Archaically the word mome has also been used. The similar terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized meanings in modern times. An idiot is said to be idiotic, and to suffer from idiocy. A dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning. An idiot differs from a fool and an ignoramus, neither of which refers to someone with low intelligence.

Definition of idiotic in the English dictionary

The definition of idiotic in the dictionary is of or resembling an idiot; foolish; senseless.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IDIOTIC


abiotic
ˌeɪbaɪˈɒtɪk
aerobiotic
ˌɛərəʊbaɪˈɒtɪk
amniotic
ˌæmnɪˈɒtɪk
antibiotic
ˌæntɪbaɪˈɒtɪk
biotic
baɪˈɒtɪk
chaotic
keɪˈɒtɪk
endosymbiotic
ˌendəʊˌsɪmbaɪˈɒtɪk
eucaryotic
ˌjuːkærɪˈɒtɪk
eukaryotic
ˌjuːkærɪˈɒtɪk
homeotic
ˌhɒmɪˈɒtɪk
macrobiotic
ˌmækrəʊbaɪˈɒtɪk
meiotic
maɪˈɒtɪk
patriotic
ˌpeɪtrɪˈɒtɪk
prebiotic
ˌpriːbaɪˈɒtɪk
probiotic
ˌprəʊbaɪˈɒtɪk
prokaryotic
prəʊˌkærɪˈɒtɪk
semiotic
ˌsɛmɪˈɒtɪk
symbiotic
ˌsɪmbaɪˈɒtɪk
unpatriotic
ˌʌnpeɪtrɪˈɒtɪk
xenobiotic
ˌzenəʊbaɪˈɒtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IDIOTIC

idiophone
idiophonic
idioplasm
idioplasmatic
idioplasmic
idiosyncrasies
idiosyncrasy
idiosyncratic
idiosyncratically
idiot
idiot board
idiot box
idiot savant
idiot strings
idiot tape
idiot-proof
idiotically
idioticalness
idiotism
idiots savants

WORDS THAT END LIKE IDIOTIC

amphibiotic
anabiotic
anaerobiotic
compatriotic
endobiotic
epibiotic
erotic
halobiotic
miotic
necrobiotic
nonantibiotic
parabiotic
periotic
premeiotic
saprobiotic
scoliotic
semeiotic
superpatriotic
trophobiotic
ultrapatriotic
zoobiotic

Synonyms and antonyms of idiotic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «IDIOTIC»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «idiotic» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of idiotic

Translation of «idiotic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IDIOTIC

Find out the translation of idiotic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of idiotic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «idiotic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

白痴般的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

idiota
570 millions of speakers

English

idiotic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मूर्खतापूर्ण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سَخِيفٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

идиотский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imbecil
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আহাম্মক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

idiot
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bodoh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

idiotisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ばかな
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어리석은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Idiotic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngốc nghếch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முட்டாள்தனமானதும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूर्खपणाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aptalca
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

idiota
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

idiotyczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ідіотський
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

idiot
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βλακώδης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

idiotiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

idiotisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

idiotisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of idiotic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IDIOTIC»

The term «idiotic» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.449 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IDIOTIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «idiotic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «idiotic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about idiotic

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10 QUOTES WITH «IDIOTIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word idiotic.
1
Alafair Burke
Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.
2
Bernard Cornwell
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
3
Elvis Costello
I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.
4
Thomas Couture
There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.
5
Sloane Crosley
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.
6
Wally George
I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
7
Uta Hagen
They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
8
Frank Harris
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
9
Miranda Hart
People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'
10
Charlie Hunter
Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IDIOTIC»

Discover the use of idiotic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to idiotic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Education and Cultural Politics: Interrogating Idiotic Education
The book combines the theoretical models of discrimination and oppression through the use of the axis of the social evils to critically analyze the cultural politics of education in relation to black people in the African Diaspora.
Ivan Hugh Walters, 2010
2
The Diva Code: Miss Piggy on Life, Love, and the 10,000 ...
Miss Piggy presents advice on being a diva, offering her insights on fashion, attitude, beauty, money, and dating.
Miss Piggy, Jim Lewis, 2009
3
An Idiotic Savant
IDIOTIC. An IdIotIc SAvAnt An IdIotIc SAvAnt RuSSell o. StewARt Copyright. An Asperser's child awakens in a bordello atagefive with no past memory, graduates from Princeton University with honors, and retires a millionaire. RUSSELL O.
Russell O. Stewart, 2013
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Dumb luck
Presents a collection of the artist's paintings, illustrations, photographs, and artwork from his animated television program.
Gary Baseman, 2004
5
The idiotic Parent and Social Tendencies
Dr. Heinz Bothma. It's notthe child's responsibilityit's yours,you mustdo a bloody proud good job ofit. The idiotic parentwillonlylooktowards short cutsjustto getrid ofthe responsibility,by taking youto one college (with what! bad accreditation)the  ...
Dr. Heinz Bothma
6
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through ...
This music, whose status is never quite clear (when it is part of the diegetic reality and when it is just part of the musical score), embodies, by means of its painfully noisy repetition, the superego imperative of idiotic enjoyment. "Brazil," to put it ...
Slavoj Žižek, 1992
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Being and the Between: Political Theory in the American Academy
I use idiocy with some reference to the Greek sense of the idios, the intimate, private.3 Astonishment is idiotic, not in a subjectivistic sense, but because it happens to the I as singular. It does not happen to consciousness in general; or to pure ...
William Desmond, 1995
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Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison ...
B. 46 '27 S. P. 71 '38 C. C. 38 '29 S. 18 30 B. N. 24 31 S. G. 20 32 G. H. 24 33 P. P. 45 34 H. S. 51 35 B. G. 33 I Residence. condiucm Boston. Idiotic from childhood ; able to labor under the direction ofothers' Scotland. Idiotic for 18 or ' 20 years.
Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Mass.), 1827
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Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern: William Desmond ...
Idiotic Selving First Ethical Selving The first of Desmond's ethical selvings is idiot selving. Idiot selving names the private and intimate elemental or original self (as discussed above) (BB 380–83). This selving is a richly “univocal” self—the self ...
Christopher Ben Simpson, 2009
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Perplexity and Ultimacy: Metaphysical Thoughts from the Middle
to the elemental self-articulation of the idiotic I. Every articulation of the elemental is in its own way elemental. But against the closure on itself of the coil of self around itself, the self-articulation of this original energy is a self- transcendence that ...
William Desmond, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IDIOTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term idiotic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Tunnel vision: Tasmania's historic 'Idiotic Railway' up for sale - ABC …
It was nicknamed the "Idiotic Railway" by many, including vocal antagonists and politicians, in reference to a time when state governments were ... «ABC Local, Jul 15»
2
Criminally Idiotic Toyota Road Rage Driver Almost Kills Biker
The video footage doesn't exactly explain why the driver of a red Toyota Yaris hatch was angry at the person in the white pickup, but it does ... «Carscoops, Jul 15»
3
9 Idiotic Office Rules That Drive Everyone Insane - Inc42 Magazine
Companies need to have rules—that's a given—but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order. I understand the ... «Inc42 Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Labor Vows to Defeat Walker and His 'Idiotic' Union Policies
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is showing no signs of abating his anti-union policies should he win the presidency, an initiative that is galvanizing ... «Newsmax, Jul 15»
5
As Trump visits his Va. winery, mayor calls comments on immigrants …
... the Mexican border into the United States “idiotic.” Trump, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, appeared with his son Eric ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
6
It's Idiotic And Archaic For Comic Con Not To Be Streamed Like E3 …
Last week, thousands of fans crammed into Hall H at San Diego Comic Con to see footage from DC's upcoming Suicide Squad movie. «Forbes, Jul 15»
7
Idiotic F1 driver causes huge crash at finish line
Idiotic F1 driver causes huge crash at finish line. You'd think that drivers in Formula 1 would be the best of the best, the elite. This video proves ... «Yahoo Eurosport UK, Jul 15»
8
Why you should never kiss a crab: Idiotic moment a game with the …
Why you should never kiss a crab: Idiotic moment a game with the shellfish goes painfully wrong. By Mirror Updated Monday, July 13th 2015 at ... «SDE Entertainment News, Jul 15»
9
Ant-Man's 6 Most Idiotic Moments
The only worse sign than a movie poster saying “Ant-Man” is “even the movie's own director can't sit through what happened to it.” We don't ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
10
Lifeguard flies rainbow flag, idiotic complaints follow
On July 4, Zach Hupp, a lifeguard on Carolina Beach, NC, flew a rainbow flag from his post. Hupp says someone immediately complained to ... «Boing Boing, Jul 15»

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