Dote vs. Imbecile

Doteverb

To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.

Doteverb

To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.

Dotenoun

(Ireland) A darling, a cutie.

Dotenoun

(obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.

Dotenoun

A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.

Dotenoun

Natural endowments.

Dotenoun

An imbecile; a dotard.

Doteverb

To act foolishly.

Doteverb

To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.

Doteverb

To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; - with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.

Doteverb

be foolish or senile due to old age

Doteverb

shower with love; show excessive affection for;

Imbecilenoun

(obsolete) A person with limited mental capacity who can perform tasks and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five to seven-year-old child.

Imbecilenoun

(pejorative) A fool, an idiot.

Imbecileadjective

(dated) Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; especially, mentally weak.

Imbecileadjective

Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.

Imbecilenoun

One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind; - sometimes used as a pejorative term.

Imbecilenoun

A person with a degree of mental retardation between that of an idiot and a moron; in a former classification of mentally retarded person, it applied to a person with an adult mental age of from four to eith years, and an I.Q. of from 26 to 50.

Imbecileverb

To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.

Imbecilenoun

a person of subnormal intelligence

Imbecileadjective

having a mental age of three to seven years

Imbecile

The term imbecile was once used by psychiatrists to denote a category of people with moderate to severe intellectual disability, as well as a type of criminal. The word arises from the Latin word imbecillus, meaning weak, or weak-minded.