IDIOTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does idiotic mean? 

• IDIOTIC (adjective)
  The adjective IDIOTIC has 3 senses:

1. insanely irresponsible

2. so unreasonable as to invite derision

3. having a mental age of three to seven years

  Familiarity information: IDIOTIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IDIOTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insanely irresponsible

Synonyms:

crackbrained; idiotic

Context example:

an idiotic idea

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

So unreasonable as to invite derision

Synonyms:

absurd; cockeyed; derisory; idiotic; laughable; ludicrous; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous

Context example:

her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous

Similar:

foolish (devoid of good sense or judgment)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having a mental age of three to seven years

Synonyms:

idiotic; imbecile; imbecilic

Similar:

retarded (relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development)

Derivation:

idiot (a person of subnormal intelligence)

 Context examples 

That I caught a view of myself in a mirror, looking perfectly imbecile and idiotic.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I wish you would take yourself and your idiotic brain theories somewhere else.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It would be idiotic!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A minute later he came in and said:—It was an idiotic thing of me to do, and I ask your pardon, Mrs. Harker, most sincerely; I fear I must have frightened you terribly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then she could not endure the dog, a fat, cross beast who snarled and yelped at her when she made his toilet, and who lay on his back with all his legs in the air and a most idiotic expression of countenance when he wanted something to eat, which was about a dozen times a day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)