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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

apish, arrested, asinine, babbling, backward, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blithering, brainless, buffoonish, burbling, cockeyed, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, credulous, cretinistic, cretinous, daffy, daft, dazed, dim-witted, dithering, dizzy, doting, driveling, drooling, dull, dumb, fatuitous, fatuous, feebleminded, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, gulled, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, kooky, loony, mad, maudlin, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, not all there, nutty, retarded, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, slow-witted, stupid, subnormal, thoughtless, wacky, wet, witless

Dictionary Results for moronic:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

moronic
    adj 1: having a mental age of between eight and twelve years

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

moronic \moronic\ adj.
   having a mental age of between eight and twelve years; also
   used as a derogatory term.
   [WordNet 1.5]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Moron \Mo"ron\ (m[=o]"r[o^]n), n. [Gr. mw^ros foolish, stupid.]
   1. (Pedagogy) A mentally retarded person whose intellectual
      development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year
      of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no
      further development; an adult having the mental
      development of an 8-to-12-year old. A moron is considered
      capable of doing routine work under supervision.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

   2. Hence, a very stupid person. [informal, derogatory]
      [PJC] -- mo*ron"ic adj. -- mo*ron"ic*al*ly adv. --
      mo"ron*ism n. -- mo*ron"i*ty n.

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