Usually means: Lacking intelligence, poor decision-making skills.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word imbecile:

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  1. imbecile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. imbecile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imbecile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imbecile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imbecile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imbecile, imbecile: Wordnik
  7. imbecile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imbecile: Wiktionary
  9. imbecile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imbecile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imbecile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. imbecile: Dictionary.com
  13. imbecile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Imbecile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Imbecile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. imbecile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. imbecile: Rhymezone
  18. Imbecile, imbcile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. imbecile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. imbecile: Free Dictionary
  21. imbecile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. imbecile: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Imbecile: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. imbecile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imbecile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. imbecile: Medical dictionary
  3. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imbecile: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See imbeciles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (obsolete) A person with limited mental capacity who can perform tasks 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.
noun:  (derogatory) A fool, an idiot.
adjective:  (dated) Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; especially, mentally weak.

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