Crossword clues for idiot
idiot
- Definite Mensa reject
- Certainly no Einstein
- __ Light
- Village celebrity?
- Dostoevsky subject
- Clueless sort
- Brainless sort
- ___ box
- Word with savant or proof
- Utterly senseless one
- Simple guy
- One who is hardly an Einstein
- No genius, he
- Mensa member's opposite
- Green Day "Don't want to be an American ___"
- Green Day "American ___"
- Genius's opposite
- Dostoyevsky masterpiece (with ''The'')
- Dostoevsky novel (with "The")
- Dense one
- ___ light (dashboard item)
- ___ light (dash item)
- Word with light or box
- Word with box or light
- Word with ''savant'' or ''box''
- Word said with a slap across someone's head
- Word for Prince Myshkin
- Word before box or savant
- Word before box or card
- U-turn from brainiac
- Type of box that's often watched
- Total fool
- The ____ : Dostoevsky novel
- Target reader of a series of guides, facetiously
- Target of a series of guides
- Sharp-as-a-marble sort
- Senseless sort
- Senseless person
- Self-deprecating exclamation
- Opposite of an Einstein
- One who tells a tale full of sound and fury, per Macbeth
- One of the village people?
- One of Dostoevsky's books (with "The")
- One may be complete
- One lacking common sense
- One beyond foolish
- Napoleon Dynamite exclamation
- Mensa reject
- Low-I.Q. type
- Lisa Marie Presley song about a stupid person?
- Just a simple guy
- Incubus "___ Box"
- Hives "Walk ___ Walk"
- Green Day's "American"
- Green Day's "American ___"
- Genius? Not even close
- Genius opposite
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel, with "The"
- Far from a Mensa candidate
- Every other driver, to the road-enraged
- Epithet uttered by Napoleon Dynamite
- Einstein opposite
- Easily-manipulated type
- Dumbbell you can't curl
- Dostoyevsky's "The _____"
- Dostoyevsky's The ____
- Dostoyevsky title hero
- Dostoyevsky character
- Dostoevsky's The ___
- Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin, e.g
- Dostoevsky work (with "The")
- Dostoevsky title word
- Dostoevsky title character
- Dostoevsky novel with The
- Dostoevski's Prince Myshkin
- Dostoevski title word
- Dostoevski subject
- Dostoevski novel, with "The"
- Dostoevski novel with The
- Complete buffoon
- Brainiac's antithesis
- Box or proof preceder
- Born fool
- Blithering one
- 1869 Dostoyevsky novel, with "The"
- "The ___" (Dostoyevsky novel)
- "Our ___ Brother" (2011 Paul Rudd comedy)
- "Our ___ Brother" (2011 comedy film)
- "It is a tale told by an __ . . ."
- "American ___" (Green Day album)
- "American ___" (Green Day album made into a Broadway musical)
- "AKA ___" (Hives song)
- "... a tale told by an ---"
- " . . . told by an ___"
- '77 Iggy Pop album (with "The")
- -- box (TV)
- __-proof: easy to operate
- ____ savant
- ____ box: TV set
- ___ light (dash indicator)
- Around start of Oktoberfest the diet is going to pot — prompting help?
- Booby
- Dimwitted sort
- Ninny
- Dostoyevsky novel, with "The"
- Dolt
- Numbskull
- Blithering sort
- Pinhead
- Dunderpate
- Dummkopf
- No exemplar of erudition
- Blockhead
- No-brainer?
- Bonehead
- Moron
- Foolish person
- Half-wit
- Dull type
- A genius, no
- Dip
- Yo-yo
- Not exactly a brainiac
- Birdbrain
- Chucklehead
- Dunderhead
- Word said with a head slap
- Doofus
- Kind of box
- Real dope
- ___-proof (easy to operate)
- "You ___!" (cry while hitting oneself on the head)
- Jerk
- Teller of a tale "full of sound and fury," per Macbeth
- Goober
- Boob
- Bozo
- Dodo
- Dum-dum
- Dumb ox
- Chowderhead
- Buffoon
- A person of subnormal intelligence
- Dostoyevsky's "The ___"
- Dostoyevsky subject
- Kind of card
- ___ card (TV prop)
- Kind of board or box
- Very foolish fellow
- Nincompoop
- Dostoyevsky work, with "The"
- Simpleton
- Kind of TV card
- " . . . tale told by an ___": Shak.
- Dostoyevsky protagonist
- Word before box or proof
- _____ savant
- "The ___," Dostoyevsky novel
- " . . . a tale told by an ___ . . . ": Macbeth
- Kind of TV board or card
- ___ box (TV)
- Describing certain cards, in TV
- Kind of TV box or board
- Victim of anoia
- "The ___": Dostoyevsky
- TV card or box
- Dostoevski's "The ___"
- Victim of anoesia
- Dostoyevsky's Myshkin, e.g.
- Mug — I had nothing to fill it
- Clipped manner of speaking ultimately felt stupid
- Charlie returned to south of France with no money
- One far from wise in Djibouti oddly
- Witless couturier briefly invested in new technology
- Wild, hit out regularly? Silly
- Stupid dictator's extremely overconfident
- Simpleton’s one point taking one in
- Fool I spot holding one
- Fool I spot holding electric current
- First of all, I'm dismayed: I'm ostensibly the fool
- Right away Vlad would demonstrate he's not very bright
- Recurrence of mastoiditis renders one senseless
- Innocent wedding vow contains one term of endearment
- I point, when coming across one simpleton
- I had sex appeal to ensnare old fool
- I had nothing invested in it, being a fool
- Dummy username perhaps leads to insertion of Trojan
- Dope one I love gets in Delft on vacation
- This plonker's oddly vacant mild riposte
- End of the lament
- Every driver but you?
- Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- Dumb cluck
- Hardly a brainiac
- Village figure?
- Blithering fool
- Hardly an Einstein
- Dostoyevsky title character named Lev Myshkin
- Utterly senseless person
- Vilified villager
- Mental midget
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idiot \Id"i*ot\ ([i^]d"[i^]*[o^]t), n. [F. idiot, L. idiota an uneducated, ignorant, ill-informed person, Gr. 'idiw`ths, also and orig., a private person, not holding public office, fr. 'i`dios proper, peculiar. See Idiom.]
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A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office. [Obs.]
St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons.
--Jer. Taylor. -
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus. [Obs.]
Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis.
--C. Blount. -
A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool. In a former classification of mentally retarded people, idiot designated a person whose adult level of intelligence was equivalent to that of a three-year old or younger; this corresponded with an I.Q. level of approximately 25 or less.
Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
--Shak. -
A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.
Weenest thou make an idiot of our dame?
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning;" also in Middle English "simple man, uneducated person, layman" (late 14c.), from Old French idiote "uneducated or ignorant person" (12c.), from Latin idiota "ordinary person, layman; outsider," in Late Latin "uneducated or ignorant person," from Greek idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill" (opposed to writer, soldier, skilled workman), literally "private person (as opposed to one taking part in public affairs)," used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own" (see idiom).Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. [Mark Twain, c.1882] Idiot box "television set" is from 1959; idiot light "dashboard warning signal" is attested from 1968. Idiot savant attested by 1870.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pejorative English) A person of low general intelligence. 2 (context obsolete medicine psychology English) A person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Idiot is a Telugu film which released on 22 August 2002 and was directed by Puri Jagannadh. This film stars Ravi Teja and Rakshita. This film was a big hit in 2002 . It was later remade in Tamil as Dum in 2003, starring Silambarasan, with Rakshitha reprising her role in all 3 movies. It was also remade in Bengali as Hero and in Bangladeshi Bengali as Priya Amar Priya.
Idiot is a 1992 Hindi film based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Idiot. It was directed by Mani Kaul and starred Shah Rukh Khan and Ayub Khan-Din. The film debuted at the New York Film Festival in October 1992. In this version of the tale, placed in contemporary Mumbai, Prince Miskin (Khan-Din) is a man whose epilepsy is mistaken for idiocy.
An idiot, dolt, dullard or (archaically) mome is a person perceived to be lacking intelligence, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. Along with the similar terms moron, imbecile, and cretin, the word archaically referred to the intellectually disabled, but have all since 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 (who is unwise) and an ignoramus (who is uneducated/ignorant), neither of which refers to someone with low intelligence. In modern English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, and its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound intellectual disability.
Idiot refers to a mentally deficient person.
Idiot may also refer to:
- Idiot (Athenian democracy), a natural self-centered ignorance, as opposed to citizenship
- Idiot (1992 film), a film by Mani Kaul
- Idiot (2002 film), a film by Puri Jagannadh
- Idiot (2012 film), a film by Rajib Biswas
- Idiots (film), a 2012 film by K. S. Bava
Idiot is a 2012 Bengali film directed by Rajib Biswas starring Ankush Hazra and Srabanti Chatterjee in lead roles . This is a remake of 2006 Tamil language comedy film Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambam, it is also made in Bangladesh in the year 2014 as Daring Lover. The film is a Super Hit.
Usage examples of "idiot".
He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.
Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute--players.
August, after that idiot from Anchorage tried to taxi through the wall.
Those idiots in the Avion government blamed the whole mess on the Chief of Security and his Kin-sha unit.
Idiot, with a look of surprise on his face, which seemed to indicate that in his opinion the Bibliomaniac was very dull-witted not to have solved the problem for himself.
Might not this idiot of a Bunning have been shown the way to the mystery?
She had the pleasure of seeing her bank broken at the first deal, and indeed this result was to be expected, as anybody not an absolute idiot could see how the cards were going.
Yes, smiles break out all around as we cast daddies, brothers, husbands into near-respectable village idiots in the stories we spin over bowls of homegrown, freshly snapped peas, clotheslines draped with bleach-scented, bloodstained damp sheets, sinks filled with suds and supper-crusted dishes.
I knew it was forged, but two days later it dawned on me that the idiot was right.
She, in her turn, had a great dread of passing for an idiot if she did not shew her appreciation of, and her resentment for, his conduct.
Simpson, that kind smiling idiot, who, I daresay, presided even then over the place--Captain William Dobbin did not take the slightest notice.
Could the youth be a man who would let a doddard idiot rob him of the girl he loved?
He could hardly have avoided learning of it for a succession of officers came to the ammunition park to give Sharpe their con dolences and to complain that an army which persecuted a man for killing the enemy must be an army led by idiots and administered by fools.
From the crowd came mutters to the effect that there were worse things than setting tables and doing idiot dances for a living, but the men around the table, several of whom had sat there when Dungy was their chief, frowned doubtfully, as though wondering whether capturing this man would be worth the risk.
The epoxy that we had too much of because some idiot computer clerk sent it instead of fruit.