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Webster 1828 Edition

Idiotic

IDIOT'IC

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Adj.

Like an idiot; foolish; sottish.

Definition 2025

idiotic

idiotic

English

Alternative forms

idiotick (obsolete, rare)

Adjective

idiotic ‎(comparative more idiotic, superlative most idiotic)

Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; afflicted with idiocy.
Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish; stupid; nonsensical.

Synonyms

idiotish

Related terms

Translations

pertaining to or resembling an idiot

Arabic: عَبِيط ‎(ʿabīṭ)
Bengali: মূর্খ ‎(murkhô)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 白痴的 (zh) ‎(báichī), 愚蠢的 (zh) ‎(yúchǔn de)
Czech: idiotský (cs)
Esperanto: idiota
French: idiot (fr), stupide (fr)
German: idiotisch, blöd (de)
Hindi: मूर्ख (hi) ‎(mūrkh), अहमक़ ‎(ahmaq)
Indonesian: bodoh (id), goblok (id), tolol (id), idiot (id)
Japanese: 馬鹿な (ja) ‎(ばかな, baka-na)
Latvian: idiotisks

Persian: احمق (fa) ‎(ahmaq)
Portuguese: idiótico
Russian: идио́тский (ru) ‎(idiótskij), дура́цкий (ru) ‎(duráckij)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: идѝотскӣ

Roman: idìotskī (sh)
Swedish: idiotisk (sv)
Turkish: saçma (tr), salakça (tr)
Urdu: مورکھ ‎(mūrkh), احمق ‎(ahmaq)
Volapük: diotanik

having the quality of idiocy

Bengali: মূর্খ ‎(murkh)
Burmese: နှမ်း (my) ‎(hnam:)
Dutch: idioot (nl)
Esperanto: idiota
German: idiotisch
Indonesian: idiot (id)
Latvian: idiotisks

Portuguese: idiota (pt)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: идѝотскӣ

Roman: idìotskī (sh)
Swedish: idiotisk (sv), dum (sv)
Volapük: diotik (vo)

References

idiotic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
idiotic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913