imbecilic

The word “imbecilic” has 4 syllables: im-be-cil-ic

It's pronounced as /ɪmˈbɛsɪlɪk/


What is synonym and antonym for imbecilic?

In the thesaurus, “imbecilic” has 187 synonyms and 23 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for imbecilic along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for imbecilic

  • absurd
  • airhead
  • asinine
  • balmy
  • beast
  • birdbrain
  • blockhead
  • bonehead
  • booby
  • boor
  • brainless
  • bubblehead
  • buffoon
  • cad
  • chowderhead
  • chucklehead
  • churl
  • clodpole
  • clodpoll
  • clot
  • clown
  • cluck
  • clunk
  • cockamamie
  • cockamamy
  • cockeyed
  • comical
  • crazy
  • creep
  • cretin
  • cuckoo
  • cuddie
  • cuddy
  • cur
  • daffy
  • daft
  • deadhead
  • derisive
  • derisory
  • dim bulb
  • dimwit
  • dip
  • dippy
  • dodo
  • dolt
  • doltish
  • donkey
  • doofus
  • dope
  • dork
  • dotty
  • dullard
  • dum-dum
  • dumb
  • dumb cluck
  • dumbbell
  • dumbhead
  • dummkopf
  • dummy
  • dunce
  • dunderhead
  • fantastic
  • fantastical
  • far-fetched
  • farcical
  • fathead
  • fatuous
  • featherbrain
  • feebleminded
  • fool
  • foolish
  • gander
  • gawk
  • golem
  • goof
  • goon
  • goose
  • half-baked
  • half-wit
  • half-witted
  • hammerhead
  • hardhead
  • harebrained
  • heel
  • idiot
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignoramus
  • ill-advised
  • ill-considered
  • illogical
  • imprudent
  • inane
  • incautious
  • inconceivable
  • incredible
  • indiscreet
  • injudicious
  • insane
  • irrational
  • jackass
  • jerk
  • jerky
  • know-nothing
  • knucklehead
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • laughable
  • loggerhead
  • loon
  • looney
  • loony
  • loser
  • ludicrous
  • lump
  • lunatic
  • lunkhead
  • mad
  • madman
  • meathead
  • mome
  • moron
  • moronic
  • mug
  • mutt
  • natural
  • nimrod
  • nincompoop
  • ninny
  • ninnyhammer
  • nit
  • nitwit
  • noddy
  • nonsensical
  • noodle
  • numbskull
  • numskull
  • nut
  • nutty
  • oaf
  • pathetic
  • pinhead
  • prat
  • preposterous
  • ratbag
  • ridiculous
  • risible
  • saphead
  • scatterbrain
  • schlub
  • schnook
  • screwball
  • senseless
  • shlub
  • short-sighted
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • simpleton
  • skunk
  • snake
  • softheaded
  • stinker
  • stock
  • stupe
  • stupid
  • thickhead
  • tomfool
  • turkey
  • unbelievable
  • unearthly
  • unintelligent
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • unreasonable
  • unwise
  • villain
  • wacky
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacky
  • witless
  • woodenhead
  • yahoo
  • yo-yo
  • zany

Antonyms for imbecilic

  • Renaissance man
  • believable
  • brain
  • conceivable
  • credible
  • earnest
  • genius
  • intellect
  • intellectual
  • logical
  • polymath
  • rational
  • realistic
  • reasonable
  • sage
  • sensible
  • serious
  • sharpie
  • sharpy
  • solemn
  • thinker
  • whiz
  • wizard

Example Sentences

  • His imbecilic actions jeopardized the entire project and caused significant setbacks.
  • It's frustrating to deal with such imbecilic behavior in a professional setting.
  • The comedian's jokes were not witty but rather imbecilic, relying on crude humor for laughs.
  • Making fun of someone's disability is not only insensitive but also imbecilic.
  • The decision to ignore expert advice was deemed imbecilic and led to disastrous consequences.

On this page you'll find 210 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to imbecilic, such as: Renaissance man, absurd, airhead, asinine, balmy, beast, believable.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

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  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acrimoniousness
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • aggravated
  • aggravation
  • agitated
  • air rage
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • anger
  • angered
  • angriness
  • angry
  • animosity
  • annoy
  • annoyance
  • annoyed
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • antagonize
  • antipathetic
  • antipathy
  • antisocial
  • ape
  • apoplectic
  • ardent
  • argumentative
  • around the bend
  • asinine
  • avid
  • ballistic
  • balmy
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bearish
  • bedlam
  • belligerence
  • belligerent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • bile
  • bilious
  • biliousness
  • birdbrained
  • birse
  • bitter
  • bitterness
  • blowup
  • blue in the face
  • boiling
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • brainsick
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffoonish
  • bughouse
  • burning
  • cantankerous
  • certifiable
  • chafe
  • cheesed off
  • choler
  • choleric
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • churlish
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • cold
  • concentrated
  • contempt
  • contentious
  • contentiousness
  • contrariness
  • contrary
  • cool
  • crabby
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • crankiness
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dander
  • delirious
  • delirium
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • devoted
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disordered
  • disputatious
  • disputatiousness
  • distant
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dudgeon
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • dyspeptic
  • eccentric
  • embitter
  • embittered
  • embitterment
  • empoisonment
  • empty-headed
  • enamoured
  • enflame
  • enflamed
  • enmity
  • enrage
  • enraged
  • enthused
  • envenom
  • envy
  • exasperate
  • exasperated
  • exasperation
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fallacious
  • fanatical
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • ferocious
  • feverish
  • fey
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • fixated
  • flare
  • flare-up
  • foaming
  • fond
  • fool
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fruity
  • fuming
  • furious
  • furor
  • fury
  • fussy
  • gaga
  • get
  • going crook
  • gormless
  • grouchy
  • grudge
  • grumpy
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • heat
  • high-pressured
  • hooked
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostility
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • hot-headedness
  • huff
  • huffy
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icy
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoderate
  • impassioned
  • impractical
  • imprudent
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incense
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • indignation
  • inept
  • infatuated
  • inflame
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intense
  • intensive
  • invalid
  • irascibility
  • irascible
  • irascibleness
  • irate
  • irateness
  • ire
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritability
  • irritable
  • irritate
  • irritated
  • irritation
  • jaundice
  • jealousy
  • jerky
  • keen
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lividity
  • lividness
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • madden
  • madness
  • malevolence
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • miff
  • mindless
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • mood
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • nettle
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • of unsound mind
  • off
  • offend
  • opaque
  • orneriness
  • ornery
  • out to lunch
  • outburst
  • outrage
  • outraged
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • passion
  • passionate
  • peeve
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • pet
  • petulant
  • pinheaded
  • pique
  • piqued
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • provoke
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • pugnacious
  • pugnaciousness
  • pugnacity
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • quarrelsomeness
  • queer
  • querulous
  • querulousness
  • quick-tempered
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
  • rancor
  • rancorous
  • rankle
  • rankled
  • ranting
  • raving
  • reckless
  • resentful
  • resentment
  • ridiculous
  • rile
  • riled
  • riley
  • rise
  • risky
  • road rage
  • roil
  • roiled
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • senseless
  • shirty
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sizzling
  • slow
  • slow burn
  • slow-witted
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spite
  • spiteful
  • spleen
  • steam up
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • strange
  • stupid
  • sulky
  • surd
  • teched
  • teed off
  • temper
  • testy
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tick off
  • ticked
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • touchy
  • unbalanced
  • unconscionable
  • unconsidered
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unpleasant
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vengefulness
  • venom
  • very upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vindictive
  • vindictiveness
  • violent
  • virulence
  • virulent
  • vitriol
  • vitriolic
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warmth
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • wild
  • witless
  • worked up
  • wrath
  • wrathful
  • wrathfulness
  • wroth
  • wud
  • zany
  • zealous

unacademic

  • absurd
  • airheaded
  • asinine
  • balmy
  • birdbrained
  • boneheaded
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • bubbleheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • cockeyed
  • cocurricular
  • crackpot
  • crazy
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dense
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • empty-headed
  • extracurricular
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • fool
  • foolish
  • gormless
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignorant
  • illiterate
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • insane
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • looney
  • loony
  • lowbrow
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • mindless
  • moronic
  • nonacademic
  • noncollegiate
  • noneducational
  • nonintellectual
  • nonsensical
  • nutty
  • obtuse
  • opaque
  • pinheaded
  • preposterous
  • sappy
  • screwball
  • senseless
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • stupid
  • thick
  • thick-witted
  • thickheaded
  • tomfool
  • unbrilliant
  • uneducated
  • uninformed
  • unintellectual
  • unintelligent
  • unscholarly
  • unsmart
  • untaught
  • unthinking
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • wacky
  • weak-minded
  • whacky
  • witless
  • zany

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