retarded
Adjective
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Relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development (synset 301846281)
"providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded"also: stupid, unintelligent - lacking intelligencesimilar to:
- backward, feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted - retarded in intellectual development
- idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic - having a mental age of three to seven years
- moronic - having a mental age of between eight and twelve years
- cretinous - afflicted with cretinism
- delayed - not as far along as normal in development
- dim-witted, simple, simple-minded - lacking mental capacity and subtlety
Noun
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People collectively who are mentally retarded (synset 107965557)
"he started a school for the retarded"is a type of: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectivelysame as: developmentally challenged, mentally retarded
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