Crossword clues for moron
moron
- City SW of Buenos Aires
- Example of oligophrenia
- His I.Q. is low
- One of low I.Q.
- Greater amount to do over the phone for fool
- One's thick slice of ham or onion
- Present behind wrapping paper ultimately for Charlie
- Descriptive of Republican leader screened by satellite?
- Dim bulb
- Slow-witted sort
- No Einstein
- Obtuse one
- Egghead's antithesis
- An Einstein he's not
- Witless one
- Slow-witted person
- Genius' opposite
- Witless sort
- Unlikely brain surgeon
- Thick sort
- Slow-witted one
- Slow thinker
- Rear view? (or ... dummy)
- One with a low I.Q
- One of low I.Q
- Like someone who can't even get the right answer to this simple clue!!!
- Intellectually challengedone
- Definitely not a rocket scientist
- Empty head
- Idiotic one
- Definitely no Einstein
- No-brainer?
- Foolish person
- Knucklehead
- Alfred E. Neuman, for one
- Dimwitted one
- Lamebrain
- Numbskull
- Mental midget
- He's no Einstein
- Ignoramus
- Imbecile
- A person of subnormal intelligence
- His I.Q. is 50–70
- Andalusian city
- City in Argentina
- Buenos Aires suburb
- City near Buenos Aires
- "Anyone who disagrees with me," in a saying
- Stupid one
- Oligophrenic
- Dullard
- U.S. air base in Spain
- Suburb of Buenos Aires
- City ESE of Sevilla
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moron \Mo*ron"\ (m[-o]*r[=o]n"), n.; Sp. pl. Morones. [Sp.] An inferior olive size having a woody pulp and a large clingstone pit, growing in the mountainous and high-valley districts around the city of Moron, in Spain.
Moron \Mo"ron\ (m[=o]"r[o^]n), n. [Gr. mw^ros foolish, stupid.]
(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.
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
1910, medical Latin, from Greek (Attic) moron, neuter of moros "foolish, dull, sluggish, stupid," probably cognate with Sanskrit murah "idiotic." Latin morus "foolish" is a loan-word from Greek. Adopted by the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-minded with a technical definition "adult with a mental age between 8 and 12;" used as an insult since 1922 and subsequently dropped from technical use. Linnæus had introduced morisis "idiocy."\n\nThe feeble-minded may be divided into: (1) Those who are totally arrested before the age of three so that they show the attainment of a two-year-old child or less; these are the idiots. (2) Those so retarded that they become permanently arrested between the ages of three and seven; these are imbeciles. (3) Those so retarded that they become arrested between the ages of seven and twelve; these were formerly called feeble-minded, the same term that is applied to the whole group. We are now proposing to call them morons, this word being the Greek for "fool." The English word "fool" as formerly used describes exactly this grade of child
--one who is deficient in judgment or sense.
[Henry H. Goddard, in Journal of Proceedings and Addresses" of the National Education Association of the United States, July 1910]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated originally English) A person of borderline intelligence in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50-69. 2 (context informal English) A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Moron may refer to:
Places:
- Moron (ancient city), mentioned by the Greek geographer Strabo
- Morón, Buenos Aires, a city in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Morón, Argentina
- Morón Partido, a district in Buenos Aires Province
- Morón, Cuba, a city in Cuba
- Moron, Grand'Anse, a commune of Haiti
- Mörön, a town in Mongolia
- Mörön, Khentii, a district of Khentii Province in eastern Mongolia
- Morong, Bataan, a municipality in the Philippines formerly known as Moron
- Morón, Venezuela, a town in northern Venezuela
- Moron, later renamed Taft, California, a city
- Moron (mountain), in the Jura Mountains
- Morón Air Base, in Morón de la Frontera, Spain
- Moron Lake, a lake in Alaska
- Lac de Moron, a lake on the border between France and Switzerland
Other uses:
- Moron (psychology), disused term for a person with a mental age between 8 and 12
- Morón (surname), people so named
- Moron Phillip (born 1992), Grenadian footballer
- "Moron" (Sum 41 song)
- "Moron" (KMFDM song)
- Moron (bacteriophage), an extra gene in prophage genomes that do not have a phage function in the lysogenic cycle
- Moron (Book of Mormon), a name and a location in the Book of Mormon
- redirect Morón, Cuba
Moron is a term once used in psychology to denote mild intellectual disability. The term was closely tied with the American eugenics movement. Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term.
Moron is the name of a location and a king in the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon. They are both connected with the Jaredite people.
Moron was an ancient city mentioned by Strabo. Several hypothesis exist related to its location, but a location near Santarém is strongly considered.
Strabo mentions that Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus made camp on an island near the city identified as modern Almourol on the river Tagus.
Other hypothesis point to Alpiarça.
The Moron (1,337 m) is a mountain of the Jura, located north of Malleray in the canton of Bern.
East of the summit is located a 30 metre high observation tower designed by Mario Botta.
A moron, in the context of bacteriophage genetics, is an extra gene in a prophage genome without a function in the phage's lysogenic cycle. These genes may code for products beneficial to the phage's bacterial host, as with the example of gp15 of phage HK97 serving as a superinfection exclusion protein. The term moron comes from the notion that the additional genes mean that these bacteriophage genomes have "more on" them.
Morón is a surname which may refer to:
- Álex López Morón (born 1970), Spanish retired tennis player
- Daniel Morón (born 1957), Argentine former football goalkeeper who played in Chile
- Gisela Morón, Spanish synchronized swimmer and 2008 Olympic silver medalist
- Guillermo Morón (born 1926), Venezuelan writer and historian
- Jaime Morón (1950-2005), Colombian footballer
Mörön (, lit. "river"; also spelled Murun) is the administrative center of Khövsgöl Aimag (province) in northern Mongolia. Before 1933, Khatgal had been the Aimag capital.
Although a poorly developed town, Mörön has a hospital, a museum, a theatre, a post office, several schools and kindergartens, like any other provincial capitals of Mongolia. Additionally, it was connected to the Mongolian central power grid in 2004. As a part of the present government's effort to connect all the aimag capitals with Ulaanbatar by paved road, the town has a paved road connecting to Mongolia's capital city Ulaanbaatar since December 2014.
Morón can refer to:-
- Morón, Buenos Aires, in Argentina
- Morón, Cuba
- Morón, Venezuela
- Morón Air Base, AB of the Spanish Air Force
- Morón de la Frontera, in Spain
- Morón (surname), for people with this surname
Usage examples of "moron".
Some of his short stories and novelettes have been mainstays for the anthologists ever since and have been adapted for television production, as for example The Little Black Bag and The Marching Morons.
But somehow Brat could not believe that Simon, even in his most deplorable moments, would ever consider pawning his life to a nymphomaniacal moron.
Several times Krishna turned to say something in Bengali, and the boy would reply and I would curse myself for being a monolingual moron.
Can we accept the fact that these people are unethical, venal morons and leave it at that?
He sat there under his belly, a thirty-dollar-a-week moron of a fat Babbitt bastard with a hanging gut and a girl at his side, a slut, a bitch, a whore beside him, a scummy female.
Fritz is a certified moron who calls himself a private dick because he thinks it wows the chicks, and Barani was a beat cop who got busted for taking a bribe.
Several times Krishna turned to say something in Bengali, and the boy would reply and I would curse myself for being a monolingual moron.
Soon the drunken tides of summer will blow chunks over the multiplexes, disgorging a stew of unappetizing green sobber in which float wads of Travoltaesque blandness and other uncured slabs of American ham, enough video-game violence and wiseass dialog and CGI monsters to satisfy a billion morons.
In essence, Ravleen would be a functioning moron, incapable of million-tongue language skills or nonlinear modeling or even the cherished ability to use private, intra-Family channels.
I mean, you would think people would want the smartest leader they could find, but instead, they seem perfectly content to elect total MORONS.
Setting up a death camp, with its railroad sidings and its around-the-clock crematoria, was not something a moron could do.
Wikkell could see how it might have been so: this Deek was a pleasant enough sort, much better company than a haughty bat or a jibbering moron of a White, and certainly much, much nicer than the human wizard, with his noxious spells and offhand death-dealing.
Disney World power system or shoot poison darts at morons who own a bunch of money-hemorrhaging sports franchises.
Every passing cadet saluted the adults, like the robotic morons that they were.
According to the legend, one day a tribesperson decided to watch this event from under the cliff, and numerous buffalo landed on his head, which, as you are well aware, is generally fatal, and thus the site got its name: Total Moron Cliff.