Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A stupid person; a dolt.
- n. Psychology 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A variety of salamander.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A person of borderline intelligence in the former classification of mental retardation, having of an intelligence quotient of 50-69.
- n. informal 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.
- n. slang An idiot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Pedagogy) 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. - n. informal, derogatory Hence, a very stupid person.
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires
- n. a person of subnormal intelligence
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek μωρός (moros, "foolish"). (Wiktionary)
- From Greek mōron, neuter of mōros, stupid, foolish. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This moron is another liberal, welfare endorsing, tax and spend fool.”
“This moron is an embarrassment to the entire country.”
“And this moron is attempting to question others about their intelligence?”
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“This moron is as stupid as Sarah Make Up with No Brains, it is hard to tell the two of them apart.”
“This moron is the reason the mortgage industry is so screwed up.”
“November 19th, 2009 4: 32 pm ET this moron is the biggest crook in NY, let him run i can't wait to see who beats the crap out of him, he is such a loser.”
“Anybody that votes for this moron is an idior, plain and simple.”
“Duh ... what a dud, the moron is about as prepared to be President of the United States as Alfred E. Newman!”
“Because calling me a moron is anger or frustration based.”
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“This immoral, evil, repugnant moron is going to be paid to justify his lies and manipulations and criminal behavior, yet people continue to live in poverty and die in an unnecessary war.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moron’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Not in the Periodic Table
Words that sound like they might be the names of elements of the periodic table, but that aren't. Many of the words listed here were actually proposed as names for substances their creators thought...
tentorium, columbarium, nasturtium, deuterium, caladium, valerian, concordium, synangium, chorium, geranium, hymenium, pyrenium and 310 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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Just not to bright
words describing people or things that just aren't very intelligent
galah, idiot, simpleton, dufus, dummy, stupid, moron, moronic, idiocy, dimwit, special, on the short bus and 10 more...
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dirtie dirtie
words most foul
fuck, cunt, shit, hell, bloody, bloody hell, fuckhead, fucking, ass, asshole, fuck off, what fuck and 33 more...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
idiot, cretin, moron, dimwit, nincompoop, meathead, addlepate, dingbat, dumbbell, dunce, fool, halfwit and 31 more...
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I am costanza, lord of the "idiots"!
moron, dolt, knucklehead, buffoon, clown, imbecile, asinine, slow, witless, dimwitted, blockhead, clueless and 10 more...
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On The Road
It's a book by Jack Kerouac
Vague, jalopy, naïve, emaciated, vindicate, hysterical, Obsequious, Schopenhauer, dichotomy, jargon, phosphorescence, lout and 109 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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Thats Mean!
Ever been called this?
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words i should never use
...and yet still do
ghost ride the whip, should, stupid, ain't, like, can't, moron
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 874 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for moron.

joannasephine Apparently there's a technical definition: a person with an IQ between 50 and 70. Jul 1, 2009
Prolagus Is he your husband?
Or just your boyfriend?
Is he the moron who's been beating you and keeping you inside?
I've never done this kind of thing
But if I kill him now, who's going to miss him?
(I could be dreaming, by Belle and Sebastian) Aug 6, 2008