On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Imbecile. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as imbecilic or simpleton and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Imbecile meaning
- 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.
- A fool, an idiot.
Synonyms of Imbecile
Using Imbecile
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | A fool, an idiot.
- Useful related words include: imbecilic, simpleton, retard, half-wit.
- In the example corpus, imbecile often appears in combinations such as: an imbecile, imbecile and.
Context around Imbecile
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Imbecile
- In this selection, "imbecile" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 19.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fucking, divisive, delusional and tendencies stand out and add context to how "imbecile" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include brazil one imbecile called adelio and by his imbecile tendencies. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "imbecile" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with imbecile
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Shame on you vindictive divisive imbecile. (6 words)
Feiv, this imbecile is more evil than stupid. (8 words)
His ballsy heroics are only matched by his imbecile tendencies. (10 words)
And don’t be squeamish about this: in Brazil, one imbecile called Adelio Bispo de Oliveira put a knife through a Presidential aspirant’s stomach and nearly killed him. (29 words)
Later, the high-flown values of chivalric romance were heavily satirized in Cervantes's Don Quixote, which portrayed the charmingly idealistic protagonist as a lovable but hopelessly delusional imbecile. (29 words)
Are you most irked by that imbecile in the Oval Office who refuses to wear a face covering -- and thus encourages his stupid followers to go unmasked? (27 words)
Are you most irked by that imbecile in the Oval Office who refuses to wear a face covering -- and thus encourages his stupid followers to go unmasked? (27 words)
Example sentences (10)
And of course, nothing is Trump's "fault" - he is an imbecile, and utterly without agency.
Are you most irked by that imbecile in the Oval Office who refuses to wear a face covering -- and thus encourages his stupid followers to go unmasked?
Feiv, this imbecile is more evil than stupid.
His ballsy heroics are only matched by his imbecile tendencies.
And don’t be squeamish about this: in Brazil, one imbecile called Adelio Bispo de Oliveira put a knife through a Presidential aspirant’s stomach and nearly killed him.
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing but respect for attorneys general from all walks of life, but Hawley sounds like a complete fucking imbecile.
It is, indeed, amazing that such remarkable work could be done by you in a short time through an imbecile and faction-ridden bureaucracy.
Ogunbayo, 20, said she was innocent, weeping that her mother was an imbecile and needed her back home.
Shame on you vindictive divisive imbecile.
Later, the high-flown values of chivalric romance were heavily satirized in Cervantes's Don Quixote, which portrayed the charmingly idealistic protagonist as a lovable but hopelessly delusional imbecile.
Common combinations with imbecile
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an imbecile 3×
- imbecile and 3×