RETARD meaning: Delay or hold back progress

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word retard:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

retard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
retard: Merriam-Webster
retard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
retard, retard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
retard: Collins English Dictionary
retard: Vocabulary.com
Retard, retard: Wordnik
retard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
retard: Wiktionary
retard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
retard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
retard: Infoplease Dictionary
retard: Dictionary.com
retard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Retard (pejorative), Retard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Retard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
retard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
retard: Rhymezone
Retard, retard (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
retard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
retard: FreeDictionary.org
retard: Mnemonic Dictionary
retard: TheFreeDictionary.com
retard(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)

retard: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

retard: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

retard: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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retard: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

RETARD: Acronym Finder

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

retard: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
retard: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
retard: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  Retardation; delay.
▸ noun:  (music) A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando.
▸ noun:  (offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation.
▸ noun:  (informal, offensive) A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put off; to postpone.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To stay back.

Similar:

slow, slow up, slow down, decelerate, imbecile, half-wit, idiot, moron, changeling, check, more...

Types:

down syndrome, asperger's, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, more...

Phrases:

mental retard, retard of the tide, mentally retard, opposite of retard, retard face, more...

Adjectives:

ment, full, mental, expiratory, social, slight, least, extreme, certain, total, emotional

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