Usually means: Lacking sense or knowledge; foolish.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word idiot:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. idiot: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. idiot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. idiot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. idiot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. idiot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Idiot, idiot: Wordnik
  7. idiot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. IDiot, idiot: Wiktionary
  9. idiot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. idiot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. idiot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. idiot: Dictionary.com
  13. idiot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. idiot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Idiot (disambiguation), Idiot (person), Idiot (usage), Idiot, The Idiot (Batuman novel), The Idiot (TV series), The Idiot (album), The Idiot (disambiguation), The Idiot (film), The Idiot (novel), The Idiot (song), The Idiot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Idiot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. idiot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. idiot: Rhymezone
  19. Idiot (m), idiot, idiot(e), idiot(e) (m/f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. idiot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Idiot: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. idiot: Free Dictionary
  23. idiot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. idiot: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. idiot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Idiot: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idiot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. idiot: Medical dictionary
  2. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. IDIOT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. idiot: Idioms
  5. idiot: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. idiot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Idiot, Idiot: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See idiots as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (derogatory) A person of low general intelligence.
noun:  (derogatory) A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
noun:  (obsolete, medicine, psychology) A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.
adjective:  (uncommon) Idiotic, stupid.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A proponent of intelligent design.

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