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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard]
2: a city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: irregular from Greek m?ros foolish, stupid Date: 1910 1. usually offensive a mildly mentally retarded person 2. a very stupid person • moronic adjective • moronically adverb • moronism noun • moronity noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 colloq. a very stupid or foolish person. 2 an adult with a mental age of about 8-12. Derivatives: moronic adj. moronically adv. moronism n. Etymology: Gk moron, neut. of moros foolish

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Moron Mo*ron", n.; Sp. pl. Morones. [Sp.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Moron Mo"ron, n. (Pedagogy) A 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(morons) If you refer to someone as a moron, you think that they are very stupid. (OFFENSIVE) I used to think that Gordon was a moron... = idiot N-COUNT [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

ament, born fool, clot, congenital idiot, cretin, defective, dullard, dullhead, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy, golem, half-wit, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, juggins, mongoloid idiot, natural, natural idiot, natural-born fool, simp, simpleton, stupid, zany