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imbeciles

noun

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. A fool, an idiot.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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