Noun: imbecile
| Singular | imbecile |
| Plural | imbeciles |
Sample Sentences
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It is an offence for a man to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile. [1956, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part I, section 7”, in Sexual Offences Act 1956, page 2:]
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VLADIMIR: Because he wouldn't save them. / ESTRAGON: From hell? / VLADIMIR: Imbecile! From death. [1954, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, →ISBN, page 5:]
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“A rat picked up a drink can and threw it at me?” yelled Mr Big.
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“A big rat, guv’nor? One of them super-rats?” suggested Thumbs.
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“It landed on my head, you imbecile!” [2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like imbecile
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French imbécile, from Latin imbēcillus (“weak, feeble”), literally “without a staff”. See: Latin Nouns '
imbēcillus'.
Verbs referencing "imbecile"
Finnish Nouns
imbesilli.