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re·tard·ed
(rĭ-tär′dĭd)adj.
1. Often Offensive Affected with intellectual disability.
2. Occurring or developing later than desired or expected; delayed.
3. Offensive Slang Socially inappropriate or foolish.
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retarded
(rɪˈtɑːdɪd)adj
(Psychology) old-fashioned offensive underdeveloped, esp mentally. See also ESN, mental handicap, subnormal2
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re•tard•ed
(rɪˈtɑr dɪd)adj.
1. characterized by retardation: a retarded child.
n. 2. the retarded, mentally retarded persons collectively.
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retarded
In the past, when a child had a mental condition that made learning difficult, people used to say that he or she was retarded, backward, simple, or educationally subnormal. Nowadays these words are avoided because they are thought to be offensive. The adjective mentally handicapped is sometimes used to describe children who have a mental condition of this kind. However, the most sensitive ways of referring to such children are to call them children with special needs or children with learning difficulties.
See crippled
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Noun | 1. | retarded - people collectively who are mentally retarded; "he started a school for the retarded" people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
Adj. | 1. | retarded - relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development; "providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded" unintelligent, stupid - lacking intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers" precocious - characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement" |
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retarded
adjectiveOffensive. Having only a limited ability to learn and understand:
Informal: soft.
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Translations
مُعاق، مُتَخَلِّف
zaostalý
retarderet
seinòroska
zekâ özürlü
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
retarded
[rɪˈtɑːrdɪd] adj (old-fashioned or offensive) → arriéré(e)mentally retarded → arriéré(e) mental(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
retarded
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
retarded
[rɪˈtɑːdɪd] adj (Med) → ritardato/ato be mentally retarded → essere (un(a)) ritardato/a mentale
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
retard
(rəˈtaːd) verb to make slower or later. The country's economic progress was retarded by strikes; The baby's development was retarded by an accident he had shortly after birth.
ˌretarˈdation (riːtaː-) nounreˈtarded adjective
a mentally retarded child.
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retarded
a. retardado-a, intelecto lento-a emocional, o en desarrollo académico.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
retarded
* adj retrasado; mentally —* con discapacidad intelectual, retrasado mental†* potencialmente ofensivo, † potentially offensive
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.