idiot

noun

1. (derogatory)A person of low general intelligence.

   “Only an idiot would fail this exam.”

   “After failing a hat-trick of exams, the teacher called him an idiot.”

2. (derogatory)A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.

   “He thought people who don't like cricket are idiots. He later got into fights with people who like football.”

   “We think that people who cycle without a helmet are idiots.”

   ““He’s an idiot – in terms of saying that. Everybody knows this. Everybody knows it. Nobody doubts it,” Biden said.”

   ““One of the things that you write so beautifully, and your stuff is so fun to read, but you write about Trump, quote, ‘The way that you build a truly vicious nationalist movement is to wed a relatively small core of belligerent idiots to a much larger group of opportunists and spineless fellow travelers whose primary function is to turn a blind eye to things,’” Kennedy said, reading Taibbi’s own writing back to him.”

3. (obsolete)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.

   “Idiots were thought to be peculiarly under the care of the Deity, and it was believed that those who treated them kindly would be blessed.”

   “It is an offence for a man to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile.”

4. (derogatory, slang)A proponent of intelligent design.

   “In his moronic book, _The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design_ (2004), 334pp., the IDiot William Dembski writes on page 305 about how a fellow IDiot was fired from a research position at a "prestigious molecular biology laboratory" the very same day a press story appeared exposing this character as being an IDiot.”

   “Nor does any sane or rational person believe any enzyme fell together all at once purely by chance - that is the domain of creotards, IDiots, and theoloons.”

   “Thus all sciences, including evolution, are guided by the available objective physical evidence while all creationism regularly rejects any implications of objective physical evidence which does not support their IDiot Bibliolatry.”

adj

1. (uncommon)Idiotic, stupid.