Question 1 · Quick check
idiot
CEFRC1
/ˈɪdiət/
noun · adjective
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
noun
An offensive word for a very foolish person.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
Examples
I will not be dictated to by some idiot in the personnel department.
Thanks for having explained to me at last why people take me for an idiot.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 4
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- /ˈɪd͡ʒət/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA person of low general intelligence.
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.
adjective
Extra meaningIdiotic, stupid.
More examples
In contextYou are an idiot to go out in this weather.
After failing a hat-trick of exams, the teacher called him an idiot.
He thought people who don't like cricket are idiots. He later got into fights with people who like football.
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Origin
noun
From Middle English idiote, ydiote, from Old French idiote (later idiot), from Latin idiota, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private”). Doublet of idiota. By surface analysis, idi- + -ot.