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moronic

moronic \moronic\ adj. having a mental age of between eight and twelve years; also used as a derogatory term.

moronic

Moron \Mo"ron\ (m[=o]"r[o^]n), n. [Gr. mw^ros foolish, stupid.]

  1. (Pedagogy) A mentally retarded person whose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no further development; an adult having the mental development of an 8-to-12-year old. A moron is considered capable of doing routine work under supervision.

  2. Hence, a very stupid person. [informal, derogatory] [PJC] -- mo*ron"ic adj. -- mo*ron"ic*al*ly adv. -- mo"ron*ism n. -- mo*ron"i*ty n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
moronic

1911, from moron + -ic. Related: Moronically.

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moronic

a. 1 (context medicine English) having a mental age of between seven and twelve years 2 (context slang English) behaving in the manner of a moron; idiotic; stupid

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moronic

adj. having a mental age of between eight and twelve years

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Usage examples of "moronic".

More bizarre still, he actually allied Albania with Red China, which had to be one of the most moronic geostrategic gestures in history.

Spotmaster, and he built and blended and sweetened the hell out of that laugh track till even I chuckled at moronic material Bill Tidy had bastardized to a level that only the Jukes and Kallikaks could have found uproarious.

The gnats had strung their moronic web beneath a circle of tiny moonlets moving fast enough to hold it suspended.

Washington Times MARTIN AMIS THE INFORMATION Martin Amis's books include Money, Dead Babies, The Rachel Papers, The Moronic Inferno, Einstein's Monsters, London Fields, Time's Arrow, and Visiting Mrs.

Not one of those mindless, looney-bin rejects who line the bookracks: The Exterminator, The Extincter, The Ripper, The Slasher, The Wiper-Outer, The Mutilator, The Ix-Nayer, all those same series, with their same covers, their same plots, and their same moronic machine-gunning leads who figure the best way to solve a problem is to shoot it.

Even if she slowed down, and followed the phrases in a moronic lip-mime like Honey frowning over Love Yourself, the words were giving nothing away, smug, sated, chockful of good things sneeringly denied to her.

It had been even more difficult to resist the temptation to do his famous impersonation of the southern darkie cotton picker boott licking moronic grin, the works than to resist the temptation to clench his jaws while speaking.

It also would have been moronic inasmuch as state judges have absolutely nothing to say about the country’.

A vodyanoi lolled at the edge of the river in Murkside, his capacious mouth pouting in a moronic leer.

A vodyanoi lolled at the edge of the river in Murk-side, his capacious mouth pouting in a moronic leer.

But the bars which separated him from the corridor, and from the morose old man on his left, and from the big, moronic looking teenager on his right--the bars were four inches thick and eight inches apart, padded in silicone plastics.

Lastly, I cannot tell you how anyone came to appoint as news correspondent a man so moronic as to accept that film at its face value.

After searching through her pockets, she found the credit tokens the aging meter demanded in its moronic and static jumbled tones and plugged in enough for two hours.

Cried, cried, rested, then cried some more, with her face in the crook of her elbow on the counter, listening to her breathlessness, the screen on, crying amid images of moronic grinning Dranees with daisies and Aslow Actioneers with torchers as big as small cannons, patrolling the streets in choir robes and faceless masks, and bodies in alleys, bodies in trucks, bodies stuffed into the back seats of cars, dead, alive, and Dr.

They mostly seemed to be dressed for a track meet, in shorts and running shoes and hideous T-shirts, except they were overweight and slung with cameras and had billed caps with moronic slogans on them.