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  1. moron

    noun

    1. A person who is considered foolish or stupid.
    2. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
    3. An inferior olive size having a woody pulp and a large clingstone pit, growing in the mountainous and high-valley districts around the city of Moron, in Spain.

    noun

    1. A person who is considered foolish or stupid.
    2. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
    3. An inferior olive size having a woody pulp and a large clingstone pit, growing in the mountainous and high-valley districts around the city of Moron, in Spain.
    4. 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.
    5. Hence, a very stupid person.
    6. A person of borderline intelligence in the former classification of mental retardation, having of an intelligence quotient of 50-69.
    7. A person who makes uncool, unfunny, uninteresting, or irrelevant (see lame) attempts to impress others and draw attention to himself, especially in a flawed attempt to act like someone else.
    8. An idiot.
    9. A city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires.
    The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik
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  2. moron typically occurs about 0.5 times per million words in modern written English. moron is in frequency band 4, which contains words occurring between 0.1 and 1 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands. Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate. ...
  3. britannica.com

    Britannica Dictionary definition of MORON [count] informal: a very stupid or foolish person: idiot. They were acting like a bunch of morons. I can't believe I did something so stupid. I feel like a complete moron. an utter moron [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples
  4. merriam-webster.com

    Idiot, imbecile, and moron were, not so long ago, used in a psychological classification system, and each one was assigned to a fairly specific range of abilities.. Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years. Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that ...

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  1. Moron

    Psychology

    Moron is a term once used in psychology and psychiatry to denote mild intellectual disability. The term was closely tied with the American eugenics movement. Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term. It is similar to imbecile and idiot. Wikipedia

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