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idiot
noun
a
person
who
behaves
very
stupidly
or
lacks
good
judgment
•
I
felt
like
an
idiot
after
locking
my
keys
inside
the
car
.
I
felt
like
an
idiot
after
locking
my
keys
inside
the
car
.
•
"
Don
’
t
be
an
idiot
—
read
the
instructions
first
,"
she
said
,
handing
him
the
manual
.
"
Don
’
t
be
an
idiot
—
read
the
instructions
first
,"
she
said
,
handing
him
the
manual
.
Borrowed
from
Middle
French
"
idiot
",
from
Latin
"
idiota
"
meaning
an
uneducated
person
,
originally
from
Ancient
Greek
"
idiṓtēs
"
meaning
a
private
individual
without
professional
knowledge
.
noun
(
dated
,
offensive
)
a
person
with
a
very
severe
intellectual
disability
,
in
old
medical
classification
•
In
the
19th
century
,
doctors
wrongly
labeled
some
children
as
idiots
.
In
the
19th
century
,
doctors
wrongly
labeled
some
children
as
idiots
.
•
The
old
asylum
records
used
the
term
idiot
for
patients
with
profound
cognitive
impairments
.
The
old
asylum
records
used
the
term
idiot
for
patients
with
profound
cognitive
impairments
.
Used
in
19th-century
medical
texts
as
part
of
a
hierarchy
of
intellectual
disability
;
later
abandoned
in
favor
of
respectful
clinical
terminology
.
