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adj
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
adv
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- in or to or toward a past time
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
noun
noun
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- (psychology) Ellipsis of mental retardation.
- any agent that retards or delays or hinders
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- a decrease in rate of change
- (acoustics) The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- (music) A suspension which resolves upwards.
- (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extreme stupidity.
- (music) The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- (physics) Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- (telegraphy) A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
noun
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
- (physics) A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.
- The quality or state of being slow.
adj
noun
- Initialism of mental retardation, a deprecated former term for intellectual disability.
- Initialism of magnetoresistance
- Initialism of magnetic resonance
- (US military) Acronym of memorandum for the record, memorandum for record, memo for the record, or memo for record.
- (prison system) Initialism of mandatory release.
- Initialism of Master of the Rolls, as a postnominal.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of mineralocorticoid receptor.
- (sports) Initialism of meeting record, the best performance at all occurrences of a particular athletic meeting.
- (gaming) Initialism of magic resistance.
- (computing) Initialism of mixed reality.
- (software engineering) Initialism of merge request.
- Initialism of mortality rate.
- (pharmacology, medicine) Initialism of modified release.
- (cardiology) Initialism of mitral regurgitation.
- Clipping of MRI (“magnetic resonance image/imager/imaging”).
name
adj
noun
- Initialism of intellectual disability.
- Initialism of intelligent design.
- (nutrition) Initialism of iron deficiency.
- (music) An electronic music track without an official title.
- Initialism of industrial design.
- Initialism of inside diameter or inner diameter or internal diameter.
- (radio, television) An ident.
- Abbreviation of identification / identifier / identity document.
- Initialism of industry discount.
- (Internet) Initialism of image description.
- a card or badge used to identify the bearer
name
verb
adj
- lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
- lacking intelligence
- in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
- (euphemistic, by association) Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
- (slang) Amazing.
- To the point of stupor.
- Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
- (of animates) Lacking in intelligence.
- Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
- Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
noun
adv
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- having high relative density or specific gravity
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- having component parts closely crowded together
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- (mathematics, topology, of a subset S of a topological space T, not comparable) Such that its closure in T is T.
- Compact; crowded together.
- Obscure or difficult to understand.
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
- Having relatively high density.
noun
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- made dim or less bright
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- lacking in light; not bright or harsh
- offering little or no hope
- Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
- (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
- Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
- Not bright or colorful.
- (music) Clipping of diminished.
verb
- make dim or lusterless
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- become vague or indistinct
- become dim or lusterless
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- (intransitive) To become darker.
- To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
- To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
- (figurative) To diminish, dull, or curtail.
- (transitive) To make something less bright.
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- lacking in liveliness or animation
- not having a sharp edge or point
- darkened with overcast
- emitting or reflecting very little light
- blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
- not keenly felt
- (of business) not active or brisk
- (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
- being or made softer or less loud or clear
- Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)
- Bored, depressed, down.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
verb
- make less lively or vigorous
- make dull in appearance
- become less interesting or attractive
- become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
- make dull or blunt
- make numb or insensitive
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- lacking the power of human speech
- unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- temporarily incapable of speaking
- (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
- (of technology) Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own.
- (informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Stupid.
- Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind.
adv
verb
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- lacking in insight or discernment
- (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
- (geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
- (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- (geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
- (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Indirect or circuitous.
- Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- at a slow tempo
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
adv
verb
noun
adj
- marked by lack of intellectual depth
- having only superficial plausibility
- artfully persuasive in speech
- Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
- Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
- Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
noun
verb
noun
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
- mental ability
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
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verb
adj
- intellectually productive
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- capable of reproducing
- marked by great fruitfulness
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
- (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
adj
- intellectually productive
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- (botany) Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
- Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
- Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
noun
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- a person who uses the mind creatively
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- A person who has that faculty to a great degree.
- (uncountable) The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
- (uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
noun
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- attention
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
verb
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
noun
- retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
- an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
- marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
- behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
- Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.
- The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
adj
- departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development
- much greater than the normal
- not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm
- Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
- Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.
noun
noun
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- absence of affectation or pretense
noun
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being smart, intelligence.
- (countable) The result or product of being smart.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being smart in appearance.
- liveliness and eagerness
- a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
- intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
adj
- having intellectual depth
- considerate of the feelings or well-being of others
- exhibiting or characterized by careful thought
- characterized by solemn, sincere manner
- taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
- Demonstrating kindness or consideration for others.
- Demonstrating thought or careful consideration.
verb
- To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
- To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually.
- (US) To find a seemingly rational explanation for.
- (psychology) To use (excessive) reasoning and rationalization to block out emotional stress and anxiety associated with painful or traumatic experiences.
adj
- uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
- unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
- uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
- Not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something).
- Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
- Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
- (slang) Ill-mannered, crude.
noun
adj
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- Falsification, contamination.
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Complexity.
- Enlightenment or education.
- being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
- uplifting enlightenment
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
verb
- To enlighten intellectually.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- (art) To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- (rare) To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- (also figurative) To shine light on (something).
- (also figurative) To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To become bright; to light up.
- introduce light into
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noun
verb
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- reduce the air supply
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- wring the neck of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- become or cause to become obstructed
- cause to retch or choke
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- be too tight; rub or press
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
- (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
noun
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- (electronics) A choking coil.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
- (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
verb
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
adj
noun
adj
- lacking wit or imagination
- not fanciful or imaginative
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
noun
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- (psychology) Ellipsis of mental retardation.
- any agent that retards or delays or hinders
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- a decrease in rate of change
- (acoustics) The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- (music) A suspension which resolves upwards.
- (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extreme stupidity.
- (music) The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- (physics) Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- (telegraphy) A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
noun
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
- (physics) A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.
- The quality or state of being slow.
adj
noun
- Initialism of mental retardation, a deprecated former term for intellectual disability.
- Initialism of magnetoresistance
- Initialism of magnetic resonance
- (US military) Acronym of memorandum for the record, memorandum for record, memo for the record, or memo for record.
- (prison system) Initialism of mandatory release.
- Initialism of Master of the Rolls, as a postnominal.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of mineralocorticoid receptor.
- (sports) Initialism of meeting record, the best performance at all occurrences of a particular athletic meeting.
- (gaming) Initialism of magic resistance.
- (computing) Initialism of mixed reality.
- (software engineering) Initialism of merge request.
- Initialism of mortality rate.
- (pharmacology, medicine) Initialism of modified release.
- (cardiology) Initialism of mitral regurgitation.
- Clipping of MRI (“magnetic resonance image/imager/imaging”).
name
adj
noun
- Initialism of intellectual disability.
- Initialism of intelligent design.
- (nutrition) Initialism of iron deficiency.
- (music) An electronic music track without an official title.
- Initialism of industrial design.
- Initialism of inside diameter or inner diameter or internal diameter.
- (radio, television) An ident.
- Abbreviation of identification / identifier / identity document.
- Initialism of industry discount.
- (Internet) Initialism of image description.
- a card or badge used to identify the bearer
name
verb
noun
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
- mental ability
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
prep
verb
noun
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- a person who uses the mind creatively
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- A person who has that faculty to a great degree.
- (uncountable) The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
- (uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
noun
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- attention
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
verb
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
noun
- retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
- an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
- marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
- behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
- Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.
- The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
noun
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- absence of affectation or pretense
noun
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being smart, intelligence.
- (countable) The result or product of being smart.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being smart in appearance.
- liveliness and eagerness
- a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
- intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
noun
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- Falsification, contamination.
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Complexity.
- Enlightenment or education.
- being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject
- uplifting enlightenment
- a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
- falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
verb
- To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
- To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually.
- (US) To find a seemingly rational explanation for.
- (psychology) To use (excessive) reasoning and rationalization to block out emotional stress and anxiety associated with painful or traumatic experiences.
verb
- To enlighten intellectually.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- (art) To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- (rare) To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- (also figurative) To shine light on (something).
- (also figurative) To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To become bright; to light up.
- introduce light into
verb
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- reduce the air supply
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- wring the neck of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- become or cause to become obstructed
- cause to retch or choke
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- be too tight; rub or press
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
- (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
noun
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- (electronics) A choking coil.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
- (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
verb
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
adj
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
adv
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- in or to or toward a past time
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
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noun
- Initialism of mental retardation, a deprecated former term for intellectual disability.
- Initialism of magnetoresistance
- Initialism of magnetic resonance
- (US military) Acronym of memorandum for the record, memorandum for record, memo for the record, or memo for record.
- (prison system) Initialism of mandatory release.
- Initialism of Master of the Rolls, as a postnominal.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of mineralocorticoid receptor.
- (sports) Initialism of meeting record, the best performance at all occurrences of a particular athletic meeting.
- (gaming) Initialism of magic resistance.
- (computing) Initialism of mixed reality.
- (software engineering) Initialism of merge request.
- Initialism of mortality rate.
- (pharmacology, medicine) Initialism of modified release.
- (cardiology) Initialism of mitral regurgitation.
- Clipping of MRI (“magnetic resonance image/imager/imaging”).
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noun
- Initialism of intellectual disability.
- Initialism of intelligent design.
- (nutrition) Initialism of iron deficiency.
- (music) An electronic music track without an official title.
- Initialism of industrial design.
- Initialism of inside diameter or inner diameter or internal diameter.
- (radio, television) An ident.
- Abbreviation of identification / identifier / identity document.
- Initialism of industry discount.
- (Internet) Initialism of image description.
- a card or badge used to identify the bearer
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verb
adj
- lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
- lacking intelligence
- in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
- (euphemistic, by association) Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
- (slang) Amazing.
- To the point of stupor.
- Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
- (of animates) Lacking in intelligence.
- Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
- Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
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adv
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- having high relative density or specific gravity
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- having component parts closely crowded together
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- (mathematics, topology, of a subset S of a topological space T, not comparable) Such that its closure in T is T.
- Compact; crowded together.
- Obscure or difficult to understand.
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
- Having relatively high density.
noun
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- made dim or less bright
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- lacking in light; not bright or harsh
- offering little or no hope
- Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
- (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
- Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
- Not bright or colorful.
- (music) Clipping of diminished.
verb
- make dim or lusterless
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- become vague or indistinct
- become dim or lusterless
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- (intransitive) To become darker.
- To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
- To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
- (figurative) To diminish, dull, or curtail.
- (transitive) To make something less bright.
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- lacking in liveliness or animation
- not having a sharp edge or point
- darkened with overcast
- emitting or reflecting very little light
- blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
- not keenly felt
- (of business) not active or brisk
- (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
- being or made softer or less loud or clear
- Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)
- Bored, depressed, down.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
verb
- make less lively or vigorous
- make dull in appearance
- become less interesting or attractive
- become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
- make dull or blunt
- make numb or insensitive
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- lacking the power of human speech
- unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- temporarily incapable of speaking
- (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
- (of technology) Not equipped with intelligent behavior or processing capabilities of its own.
- (informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Stupid.
- Lacking some functionality or property ordinarily characteristic of its kind.
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verb
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- lacking in insight or discernment
- (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
- (geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
- (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- (geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
- (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Indirect or circuitous.
- Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
adj
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- at a slow tempo
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
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noun
adj
- marked by lack of intellectual depth
- having only superficial plausibility
- artfully persuasive in speech
- Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
- Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
- Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
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verb
adj
- intellectually productive
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- capable of reproducing
- marked by great fruitfulness
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
- (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
adj
- intellectually productive
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- (botany) Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
- Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
- Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
adj
- departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development
- much greater than the normal
- not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm
- Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
- Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.
noun
adj
- having intellectual depth
- considerate of the feelings or well-being of others
- exhibiting or characterized by careful thought
- characterized by solemn, sincere manner
- taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
- Demonstrating kindness or consideration for others.
- Demonstrating thought or careful consideration.
adj
- uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
- unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
- uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
- Not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something).
- Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
- Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
- (slang) Ill-mannered, crude.
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- lacking wit or imagination
- not fanciful or imaginative
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.