Idiot

//ˈɪd͡ʒət//

Synonyms for "idiot" (348 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Strong matches (104)

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Noun(77 words)

dickhead dicklick dildo dim bulb dimbo dimbus dimwit ding dong ding-a-ling ding-dong dingbat dingleberry dingwad dip dipshit dipstick doldrum dolt donkey dick donut

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Related words (174)

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Noun(101 words)

idiot sandwich ignoramus inbred jackaninny jackass jagoff jellybrain jerk juggins jughead knothead knucklehead lackwit lamebrain laughing stock log loggerhead lowbrow lummox lunk

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Related word relations

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10 relation types

More general

4 entries

git mentally deficient person simple simpleton

More specific

1 entries

dog that caught the car

Antonyms

1 entries

genius

Related terms

15 entries

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 450a. Absence of intellect Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 499. Imbecility cdesign proponentsist creatard creo foolish idiocy idiom idiosyncratic idiot savant idiotic idiotically insane mad person useful idiot

capable of

5 entries

ask silly question bug drag race drive up wall fool no one

derived

51 entries

Floridiot Idiotville cidiot covidiot dipshidiot idiocracy idiot board idiot box idiot card idiot end idiot girl idiot light idiot mittens idiot sandwich idiot sheet idiot stick

Showing 16 of 51 words.

derived from

1 entries

has context

5 entries

derogatory medicine pejorative psychology slang

is a

3 entries

book person simpleton

related to

10 entries

cdesign proponentsist creo creotard fool idiotic intelligence intelligent design iq proponent stupid

Translations

301 translations across 92 languages.

Albanian

3 entries

budalla noun (person of low general intelligence)
gomar noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

βλάξ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Arabic

4 entries

أهبل noun (person of low general intelligence)
أهْبَل noun (person of low general intelligence)
أَبْلَه noun (person of low general intelligence)
أَحْمَق noun (person of low general intelligence)

Armenian

3 entries

ապուշ noun (person of low general intelligence)
էշ noun (person of low general intelligence)
հիմար noun (person of low general intelligence)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

abdal noun (person of low general intelligence)
axmaq noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)
əbləh noun (person of low general intelligence)

Basque

1 entries

ergel noun (person of low general intelligence)

Belarusian

4 entries

ду́рань noun (person of low general intelligence)
дурні́ца noun (person of low general intelligence)
ідыёт noun (person of low general intelligence)
ідыётка noun (person of low general intelligence)

Bengali

2 entries

বেক্কল noun (person of low general intelligence)
মূর্খ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Bikol Central

2 entries

dangag noun (person of low general intelligence)
patal noun (person of low general intelligence)

Bulgarian

4 entries

абда́л noun (person of low general intelligence)
ахма́к noun (person of low general intelligence)
глупа́к noun (person of low general intelligence)
глупа́чка noun (person of low general intelligence)

Burmese

1 entries

ဗာလ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Catalan

1 entries

idiota noun (person of low general intelligence)

Chichewa

1 entries

chitsiru noun (person of low general intelligence)

Chinese Cantonese

3 entries

戇鳩 /戆鸠 noun (person of low general intelligence)
死蠢 noun (person of low general intelligence)
白痴 noun (person of low general intelligence)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

傻子 noun (person of low general intelligence)
傻瓜 noun (person of low general intelligence)
呆子 noun (person of low general intelligence)
白痴 noun (person of low general intelligence)

Czech

2 entries

idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiotka noun (person of low general intelligence)

Danish

3 entries

fjols noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)
nar noun (person of low general intelligence)

Dutch

4 entries

domkop noun (person of low general intelligence)
domme gans noun (person of low general intelligence)
idioot noun (person of low general intelligence)
idioot noun (person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old)

Esperanto

2 entries

idioto noun (person of low general intelligence)
stultulo noun (person of low general intelligence)

Estonian

3 entries

idioot noun (person of low general intelligence)
lollpea noun (person of low general intelligence)
oinas noun (person of low general intelligence)

Finnish

4 entries

hölmö noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiootti noun (person of low general intelligence)
pöljä noun (person of low general intelligence)
typerys noun (person of low general intelligence)

French

4 entries

bouffon noun (person of low general intelligence)
bouffonne noun (person of low general intelligence)
crétin noun (person of low general intelligence)
crétine noun (person of low general intelligence)

Galician

4 entries

alpabarda noun (person of low general intelligence)
babeco noun (person of low general intelligence)
babiolo noun (person of low general intelligence)
bouto noun (person of low general intelligence)

Georgian

2 entries

ახმახი noun (person of low general intelligence)
იდიოტი noun (person of low general intelligence)

German

4 entries

Dummkopf noun (person of low general intelligence)
Idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)
Idiotin noun (person of low general intelligence)
Narr noun (person of low general intelligence)

Greek

4 entries

βλάκας noun (person of low general intelligence)
ηλίθιος noun (person of low general intelligence)
ιδιώτης noun (person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old)
μικρόνους noun (person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old)

Gujarati

3 entries

ડોબું noun (person of low general intelligence)
મૂઢ noun (person of low general intelligence)
મૂર્ખ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Hebrew

3 entries

אִידְיוֹט noun (person of low general intelligence)
גולם \ גֹּלֶם noun (person of low general intelligence)
שׁוֹטֶה noun (person of low general intelligence)

Hindi

4 entries

अहमक noun (person of low general intelligence)
अहमक़ noun (person of low general intelligence)
उल्लू noun (person of low general intelligence)
बालबुद्धि noun (person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old)

Hungarian

3 entries

félkegyelmű noun (person of low general intelligence)
hülye noun (person of low general intelligence)
idióta noun (person of low general intelligence)

Icelandic

4 entries

asni noun (person of low general intelligence)
grasasni noun (person of low general intelligence)
hálviti noun (person of low general intelligence)
skynskiptingur noun (person of low general intelligence)

Indonesian

1 entries

bodoh noun (person of low general intelligence)

Ingrian

4 entries

bolvana noun (person of low general intelligence)
durakka noun (person of low general intelligence)
foofana noun (person of low general intelligence)
hapalka noun (person of low general intelligence)

Iranian Persian

4 entries

اَبْلَهْ noun (person of low general intelligence)
اَحْمَق noun (person of low general intelligence)
خِرِفْت noun (person of low general intelligence)
خِنْگ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Irish

2 entries

amadán noun (person of low general intelligence)
dúramán noun (person of low general intelligence)

Italian

2 entries

idiota noun (person of low general intelligence)
squasimodeo noun (person of low general intelligence)

Japanese

4 entries

あほ noun (person of low general intelligence)
戯け者 noun (person of low general intelligence)
白痴 noun (person of low general intelligence)
馬鹿 noun (person of low general intelligence)

Kazakh

2 entries

ақымақ noun (person of low general intelligence)
идиот noun (person of low general intelligence)

Khmer

1 entries

ល្ងីល្ងើ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Korean

4 entries

등신 noun (person of low general intelligence)
멍청이 noun (person of low general intelligence)
바보 noun (person of low general intelligence)
백치 noun (person of low general intelligence)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

акмак noun (person of low general intelligence)
идиот noun (person of low general intelligence)

Ladin

2 entries

musciat noun (person of low general intelligence)
totl noun (person of low general intelligence)

Lao

3 entries

ຄົນບັດຊົບ noun (person of low general intelligence)
ຄົນໂງ່ noun (person of low general intelligence)
ໂງ່ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Latin

3 entries

blennus noun (person of low general intelligence)
fungus noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiota noun (person of low general intelligence)

Latvian

4 entries

duraks noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiote noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiote noun (person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old)
idiots noun (person of low general intelligence)

Lithuanian

4 entries

avigalvis noun (person of low general intelligence)
durnius noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiotas noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiotė noun (person of low general intelligence)

Luhya

1 entries

omsilu noun (person of low general intelligence)

Macedonian

3 entries

абдал noun (person of low general intelligence)
идио́т noun (person of low general intelligence)
идио́тка noun (person of low general intelligence)

Malay

1 entries

bodoh noun (person of low general intelligence)

Malayalam

2 entries

കണ്ണാപ്പി noun (person of low general intelligence)
പൊട്ടൻ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Manx

1 entries

thoot noun (person of low general intelligence)

Middle English

1 entries

sot noun (person of low general intelligence)

Mongolian

3 entries

зүүлэг noun (person of low general intelligence)
тэнэг noun (person of low general intelligence)
эргүү тэнэг noun (person of low general intelligence)

Māori

4 entries

heahea noun (person of low general intelligence)
hukehuke noun (person of low general intelligence)
hākawa noun (person of low general intelligence)
pōhauhau noun (person of low general intelligence)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

ɗaɓa noun (person of low general intelligence)

Norman

1 entries

peûle noun (person of low general intelligence)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)
narr noun (person of low general intelligence)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)

Old English

1 entries

unwita noun (person of low general intelligence)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

طوی noun (person of low general intelligence)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

Dommajon noun (person of low general intelligence)
Eefelt noun (person of low general intelligence)

Polish

4 entries

dureń noun (person of low general intelligence)
głupek noun (person of low general intelligence)
głupiec noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiota noun (person of low general intelligence)

Portuguese

1 entries

idiota noun (person of low general intelligence)

Punjabi

2 entries

ਬੇਵਕੂਫ਼ noun (person of low general intelligence)
ਮੂਰਖ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Romanian

4 entries

idioate noun (person of low general intelligence)
idioată noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)
idioți noun (person of low general intelligence)

Russian

4 entries

глупе́ц noun (person of low general intelligence)
ду́ра noun (person of low general intelligence)
ду́рень noun (person of low general intelligence)
дура́к noun (person of low general intelligence)

Sanskrit

4 entries

जल noun (person of low general intelligence)
निर्बुद्धि noun (person of low general intelligence)
मूढ noun (person of low general intelligence)
मूर्ख noun (person of low general intelligence)

Scots

1 entries

stookie noun (person of low general intelligence)

Scottish Gaelic

3 entries

amadan noun (person of low general intelligence)
burraidh noun (person of low general intelligence)
òinseach noun (person of low general intelligence)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

idìot noun (person of low general intelligence)
idìotkinja noun (person of low general intelligence)
идѝот noun (person of low general intelligence)
идѝоткиња noun (person of low general intelligence)

Sikkimese

1 entries

གླན་པོ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Slovak

2 entries

idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiotka noun (person of low general intelligence)

Slovene

2 entries

idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)
tepec noun (person of low general intelligence)

Spanish

1 entries

idiota noun (person of low general intelligence)

Swahili

2 entries

kichwamaji noun (person of low general intelligence)
mjinga noun (person of low general intelligence)

Swedish

2 entries

idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)
narr noun (person of low general intelligence)

Tagalog

3 entries

bobo noun (person of low general intelligence)
tanga noun (person of low general intelligence)
ungas noun (person of low general intelligence)

Tajik

2 entries

аблаҳ noun (person of low general intelligence)
аҳмақ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Tamil

3 entries

அறிவிலி noun (person of low general intelligence)
முட்டாள் noun (person of low general intelligence)
லூசு noun (person of low general intelligence)

Tatar

1 entries

ахмак noun (person of low general intelligence)

Telugu

1 entries

వెధవ noun (person of low general intelligence)

Thai

4 entries

คนบ้า noun (person of low general intelligence)
คนปัญญาอ่อน noun (person of low general intelligence)
คนโง่ noun (person of low general intelligence)
คนโง่เง่า noun (person of low general intelligence)

Turkish

4 entries

ahmak noun (person of low general intelligence)
andaval noun (person of low general intelligence)
aptal noun (person of low general intelligence)
avanak noun (person of low general intelligence)

Turkmen

1 entries

akmak noun (person of low general intelligence)

Ukrainian

4 entries

ду́рень noun (person of low general intelligence)
ду́рка noun (person of low general intelligence)
дуре́па noun (person of low general intelligence)
йо́лоп noun (person of low general intelligence)

Urdu

4 entries

اَحْمَق noun (person of low general intelligence)
اُلُّو noun (person of low general intelligence)
بُدُّھو noun (person of low general intelligence)
بیوَقُوف noun (person of low general intelligence)

Uyghur

1 entries

ئەخمەق noun (person of low general intelligence)

Uzbek

3 entries

ablah noun (person of low general intelligence)
ahmoq noun (person of low general intelligence)
idiot noun (person of low general intelligence)

Vietnamese

2 entries

thằng ngu noun (person of low general intelligence)
thằng ngốc noun (person of low general intelligence)

Volapük

3 entries

diotan noun (person of low general intelligence)
hidiotan noun (person of low general intelligence)
jidiotan noun (person of low general intelligence)

Welsh

2 entries

twpsyn noun (person of low general intelligence)
ynfytyn noun (person of low general intelligence)

Yiddish

3 entries

אידיאָט noun (person of low general intelligence)
נאַר noun (person of low general intelligence)
שוטה noun (person of low general intelligence)

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

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Thanks for having explained to me at last why people take me for an idiot.

Source: tatoeba (1401)

I will not be dictated to by some idiot in the personnel department.

Source: tatoeba (25501)

You are an idiot to go out in this weather.

Source: tatoeba (54671)

When are you going to stop laughing like an idiot?

Source: tatoeba (66147)

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Idiot

Synonyms for "idiot" (348 found)

Closest matches (70)

Strong matches (104)

Related words (174)

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Antonyms

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Translations

Albanian

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Armenian

Azerbaijani

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bikol Central

Bulgarian

Burmese

Catalan

Chichewa

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Estonian

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Ingrian

Iranian Persian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Kazakh

Khmer

Korean

Kyrgyz

Ladin

Lao

Latin

Latvian

Lithuanian

Luhya

Macedonian

Malay

Malayalam

Manx

Middle English

Mongolian

Māori

Ngazidja Comorian

Norman

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Nynorsk

Old English

Ottoman Turkish

Plautdietsch

Polish

Portuguese