Thursday, November 5, 2009

imbecile

IMBECILE
imbecile /"ImbIsi;l/
· n. informal a stupid person.
· adj. stupid.
– DERIVATIVES imbecilic adj. imbecility n. (pl. imbecilities).
– ORIGIN C16 (as adj. in the sense ‘physically weak’):
via Fr. from L. imbecillus, lit. ‘without a supporting staff’.






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1 comment:

anwar azhari said...

this goes to anybody and anyone.

even to myself.