Synonyms: developmentally challenged, mentally retarded, retarded
Definition: people collectively who are mentally retarded
Usage: he started a school for the retarded
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Synonyms: retarded
Definition: relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development
Usage: providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded
Similar words: feebleminded, half-witted, backward, slow-witted
Definition: retarded in intellectual development
Similar words: idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic
Definition: having a mental age of three to seven years
Similar words: moronic
Definition: having a mental age of between eight and twelve years
Similar words: cretinous
Definition: afflicted with cretinism
Similar words: delayed
Definition: not as far along as normal in development
Similar words: dim-witted, simple, simple-minded
Definition: lacking mental capacity and subtlety