imbecile

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) A person with limited (l, en) (l, en) who can perform (l, en) and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five to seven-year-old child.
  2. Noun.  (context, pejorative) A fool, an idiot.

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