Translations for „imbecile“ in the English » German Dictionary

I . im·becile [ˈɪmbəsi:l, Am -sɪl] N

1. imbecile (stupid person):

imbecile

Dummkopf m pej

imbecile

Schwachkopf m pej

imbecile

Idiot m pej inf

to behave like an imbecile

sich acc wie ein Vollidiot benehmen pej inf

2. imbecile MED:

imbecile old

[mittelgradig] Schwachsinnige(r) f(m) old

II . im·becile [ˈɪmbəsi:l, Am -sɪl] ADJ

1. imbecile (stupid):

imbecile

schwachsinnig pej inf

imbecile

idiotisch pej inf

imbecile

blöd

2. imbecile MED:

imbecile old

imbezil spec old

imbecile old

mittelgradig schwachsinnig old

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to behave like an imbecile

sich acc wie ein Vollidiot benehmen pej inf

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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Use greed as a motivator and you can have even a seemingly smart person become a drooling imbecile.

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At first alienists described this condition as moral insanity and those who exhibited the disorder as moral imbeciles.

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This is where my anger is - they sent me on my way like an imbecile.

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Or a plethora of genuine scientific observations that clearly discount the term anthropogenic the imbecile failed to recognize and include in the duck-ument.

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An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark is... critical genius.

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If that imbecile has any conscience at all, they would return it or hand it in to the police.

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He also called me an imbecile, a degenerate and flakey while hitting me.

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The people who wrote them weren't imbeciles, and the constraints and opportunities to which they reacted weren't imaginary.

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It is beneficial to baptize imbeciles and madmen.

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Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

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