Idiota in english
Moron
pronunciation: mɔrɑn part of speech: noun
pronunciation: mɔrɑn part of speech: noun
In gestures
idiota = idiot ; fool ; cretinous ; arsehole [asshole, -USA] ; dimwit ; dim-witted [dimwitted] ; brainless ; twat ; arse ; mug ; berk ; prick ; moron ; cretin ; dumbbell ; asinine ; lemon ; airhead ; airheaded ; bonehead ; duffer ; drongo ; schmuck ; schmo ; nonce ; moke ; twerp ; dweeb ; chump ; birdbrained ; birdbrain ; dork ; plonker ; clod ; pumpkin head ; twit ; git ; prat ; goof ; goofball ; lame ; dink ; idiotic ; nitwit ; schlep [schlepp/shlep] ; ass ; half-wit ; gumph ; gubbins ; douchebag ; douche ; dumbass ; ninny ; ding-dong ; moronic ; sumph ; bozo ; pillock ; cluck ; tomfool ; goon ; goop ; dorky ; dingbat ; dope.
Example: Dykstra, M., 'PRECIS: a primer', published in 1985, offers the long-awaited 'idiot's guide' to PRECIS indexing.Example: A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.Example: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.Example: Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.Example: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.Example: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Example: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.Example: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.Example: In fact, there was little doubt in his mind that Nigel was an arse of the highest order.Example: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.Example: And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.Example: Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.Example: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.Example: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.Example: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.Example: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense .Example: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a 'lemon and a retard'.Example: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.Example: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.Example: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.Example: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.Example: Now I know to you inteligent types this sounds a simple problem but to a drongo like me it is like quantum physics!!!.Example: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.Example: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.Example: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.Example: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.Example: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.Example: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.Example: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.Example: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.Example: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.Example: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.Example: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.Example: Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.Example: He loved to tease his daughter by calling her pumpkin head.Example: Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.Example: Very few of the people I know are such gits and I think the world would be better off without them.Example: To be honest I really don't have a problem ending relationships as I am such a prat that I usually end up losing good friends.Example: They're such goofs -- they were pretending like they forgot that the webcam was on.Example: Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goofball.Example: When I said hello he turned to his gaggle of friends and said 'look what the cat dragged in!' or something lame like that.Example: The only real unfairness in all of this is that a guy with such great oratory skills should turn out to be such a dink - total waste.Example: Marc basically can't believe that someone he is so close to would make such an idiotic purchase.Example: The very idea that any voter would take such nitwits at all seriously is the real horror story.Example: I wonder why she puts up with him, he's such a schlep!.Example: Maybe they have it in for him because he's such an ass.Example: Experts confirmed this week that the U.S. populace appears to have fallen under the spell of yet another pink-faced half-wit.Example: But I never know whether to believe Clare, she's such a gumph.Example: At some point along the way my camera died because I am such a gubbins I didn't charge my battery.Example: I had to go through this event alone cause I too had a douchebag as a boyfriend = I had to go through this event alone cause I too had a douchebag as a boyfriend.Example: I don't wish anybody to get fired or laid off but that guy is such a douche!.Example: I could barely recognize the lumbering ape from behind his apron, but sure enough he was one of the dumbass jocks I went to high school with.Example: It's not my fault that the ninnies you hired were such yellow-bellies!.Example: Local dad has begun to voice concerns that his 3-year-old son might be a real ding-dong.Example: We need someone equally as empty-headed and vapidly moronic as Elisabeth Hasselbeck to replace her.Example: 'Because he was just a sumph,' answered Gavinia, scornfully.Example: I can almost picture him with his face in his hands, shaking his head, wondering how in the world he managed to end up with such bozos.Example: The Internet isn't big enough to list all the pillocks in football.Example: I promise to be a devoted husband and never give you cause to regret marrying such a cluck.Example: Your mate is some kind of epic tomfool to imprison himself in his own vehicle.Example: Only a country as warped as America could spawn such a goon.Example: If he hadn't been such a goop he wouldn't have reported the matter to the police.Example: If you are a dork and revel in the fact, you will want to know what clothing is dorky, so you can wear it.Example: Leave her alone, she's such a dingbat, things would only get worse trying to make sense out of anything she says.Example: They made fun of her, partly because she's such a dope and partly because she had a limp and a speech impediment.more:
» como un idiota = stupidly .
Example: Intelligent individuals often think that they cannot behave stupidly, but that is precisely what leads them down the garden path.» hacer el idiota = faff (about/around) [Uso principalmente británico] ; dick about/around ; screw around ; fool around/about ; horse around/about ; clown around/about ; monkey around/about ; goof around/about ; lark around/about ; act + the goat .
Example: A new report says that we waste three hours a day faffing around, doing nothing in particular, pootling, dawdling, pottering, hanging about. Example: Sometimes the reason why we dick around is because there is too much stuff to do and it's difficult to focus. Example: But I've been screwing around for long enough; it's time to get back to work and earn some cash. Example: For those professional fools, the clowns, fooling around is serious business. Example: Angus has a lot of energy -- he is always horsing around with his foster brothers and sister. Example: Almost as if I were clowning around when more important things needed to be tended to. Example: The party is over but the monkeying around is just beginning. Example: Does any of your friends goof around and flash you their privates?. Example: This is me and some friends larking about while we were on holiday in Honicombe. Example: He was taking drink as a medication. He was not a just drunken fool, but he was acting the goat = Usaba el alcohol como medicación. No es que fuera un tonto borracho, sino que estaba haciendo el ganso.» idiota de atar = blithering idiot .
Example: To be uncharacteristically succinct, he is a blithering idiot: I mean, really stupid.» idiota de capirote = blithering idiot .
Example: To be uncharacteristically succinct, he is a blithering idiot: I mean, really stupid.» idiota de mierda = stupid git .
Example: 'Mindless, non-creative garbage,' 'stupid git,' and 'malodorous pervert' would all describe your friends adequately.» idiota de remate = blithering idiot .
Example: To be uncharacteristically succinct, he is a blithering idiot: I mean, really stupid.» idiota, estúpido, imbécil, retrasado, memo, lelo, lerdo, tontaina, tarado, d = dim-witted [dimwitted] .
Example: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.» idiota genio = idiot savant [Persona retrasada mental pero con ciertas habilidades cognitivas superdesarrolladas] .
Example: Since it was first described a century ago, the phenomenon of the idiot savant -- the juxtaposition of severe mental handicap & prodigious mental ability -- has remained unexplained.» ser cosa de idiotas = be a mug's game .
Example: As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game.