Idiotic
/ˌɪdiˈɑːtɪk/adjective
Very stupid or foolish.
She made an idiotic mistake during the test.
Often appears as...
- idiotic mistake
- idiotic idea
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Disapproving
adjective
Very stupid or foolish.
She made an idiotic mistake during the test.
Often appears as...
- idiotic mistake
- idiotic idea
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
The word 'idiotic' carries negative feelings and insults someone's intelligence.
Calling someone's suggestion idiotic can hurt their feelings.
Pro Tip 2/3Common Usage
'Idiotic' is often used to describe actions or ideas, rather than people directly.
That was an idiotic decision rather than calling someone an idiot.
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Tone
The term 'idiotic' is informal and best used in casual conversations or writing.
In an informal chat: 'I can't believe I made such an idiotic mistake!'
Compare with
absurdasininebrainlessfoolishridiculoussenselesssillystupid
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Paula Scher: Great...
and then everybody accepted it all over the world. So during this time I needed some kind of counterbalance for this crazy, crazy existence of going to these long, idiotic meetings. And I was up in my country house, and for some reason, I began painting
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Grizzlies, Wolves, and...
who's good and who's bad in any reality show. But with most wildlife, including predators there ain't no such thing. Wolves are just wolves. That's it. Story on koalas. Shoot the weird, the different, the idiotic. Photograph the cute and cuddly
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You Can't Fight Gravity...
now some people think that we just show videos of people doing idiotic things for a laugh well guess what you're partially totally right Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every object in the universe pulls on every
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The first secret of...
those idiotic things we do every day that we don't even remember. He tells us about the time he visited his friends and he just wanted to take a comfortable shower. He'd reach out and grab the handle and turn it slightly one way,
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
No, I consider that absurd and idiotic. If you wanted to, and I know you're just playing devil's advocate, but if you wanted to sell secrets to another country, which he could have done and become extremely rich doing so,
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Learn to read Chinese...
we have the foundation for the mouse on the top of the tree that's idiot easy to remember since the talking tree is pretty with idiotic remember fire two files together I get really hot three files together
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Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
line so we'll see who got it right who got it wrong and he was completely on the wrong side of the world so far we are not having luck with any idiotic wildly beasts blundering in as they do
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In search of Toscanini’s...
every Napoleon Nazi you know idiotic stuio but the desert and hopefully have a map of all the Napoleon's because we have a lot of we haven't like to thank him for
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Learn to read Chinese...
Easy to remember, since a talking tree is pretty idiotic. Remember fire? Two fires together, I get really hot. Three fires together, that's a lot of flames.
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How online abuse of...
Hasn't helped the idiotic reporting standards yet I actually pay someone to scrub my social media feeds, attempting to spare my brain
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Paula Scher: Great...
and then everybody accepted it all over the world. So during this time I needed some kind of counterbalance for this crazy, crazy existence of going to these long, idiotic meetings. And I was up in my country house, and for some reason, I began painting
Video examples
Grizzlies, Wolves, and...
who's good and who's bad in any reality show. But with most wildlife, including predators there ain't no such thing. Wolves are just wolves. That's it. Story on koalas. Shoot the weird, the different, the idiotic. Photograph the cute and cuddly
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You Can't Fight Gravity...
now some people think that we just show videos of people doing idiotic things for a laugh well guess what you're partially totally right Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every object in the universe pulls on every
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The first secret of...
those idiotic things we do every day that we don't even remember. He tells us about the time he visited his friends and he just wanted to take a comfortable shower. He'd reach out and grab the handle and turn it slightly one way,
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
No, I consider that absurd and idiotic. If you wanted to, and I know you're just playing devil's advocate, but if you wanted to sell secrets to another country, which he could have done and become extremely rich doing so,
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Learn to read Chinese...
we have the foundation for the mouse on the top of the tree that's idiot easy to remember since the talking tree is pretty with idiotic remember fire two files together I get really hot three files together
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Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
line so we'll see who got it right who got it wrong and he was completely on the wrong side of the world so far we are not having luck with any idiotic wildly beasts blundering in as they do
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In search of Toscanini’s...
every Napoleon Nazi you know idiotic stuio but the desert and hopefully have a map of all the Napoleon's because we have a lot of we haven't like to thank him for
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Learn to read Chinese...
Easy to remember, since a talking tree is pretty idiotic. Remember fire? Two fires together, I get really hot. Three fires together, that's a lot of flames.
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How online abuse of...
Hasn't helped the idiotic reporting standards yet I actually pay someone to scrub my social media feeds, attempting to spare my brain
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Pilou Asbaek
Danish Actor
I used to read reviews - I read a lot of the reviews when I did 'Borgen,' but the thing is, people were so harsh that I talked to my wife about it, and I said this is too tough - the people are too personal and too idiotic to understand it, in my mind.
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John Malkovich
American Actor
We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.
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Joss Whedon
American Writer
I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.
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Steve Coogan
British Comedian
I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.
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Ruth Rendell
British Writer
People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.
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Milla Jovovich
Model
It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
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Jacques Rivette
French Director
Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.
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Miranda Hart
English Actress
People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.
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Robert Webb
English Comedian
The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.
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Jeanne Moreau
French Actress
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
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Pilou Asbaek
Danish Actor
I used to read reviews - I read a lot of the reviews when I did 'Borgen,' but the thing is, people were so harsh that I talked to my wife about it, and I said this is too tough - the people are too personal and too idiotic to understand it, in my mind.
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John Malkovich
American Actor
We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.
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Joss Whedon
American Writer
I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.
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Steve Coogan
British Comedian
I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.
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Ruth Rendell
British Writer
People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.
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Milla Jovovich
Model
It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
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Jacques Rivette
French Director
Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.
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Miranda Hart
English Actress
People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.
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Robert Webb
English Comedian
The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.
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Jeanne Moreau
French Actress
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
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