retard

Plural: retards

Noun

• a person of subnormal intelligence
• Retardation; delay.
• A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando.
• A person with mental retardation.
• A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.

Verb

Verb Forms: retarded, retarding, retards

• To slow the progress or development of something.
• cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate
  • "This drug will retard your heart rate"
• be delayed
• slow the growth or development of
  • "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
• lose velocity; move more slowly
• To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing.
• To put off; to postpone.
• To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
• To decelerate; to slow down.
• To stay back.

Examples

• His opponent’s defensive plays served to RETARD his progress towards a high-scoring triple word opportunity.
• retard the march of an army
• retard the motion of a ship
• The retard in our class needs special help.
• to retard a rupture between nations
• to retard the attacks of old age

Synonyms

changeling, check, cretin, decelerate, delay, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, slow, slow down, slow up, Charlie, Homer Simpson, alcatote, arsehole, asshat, asshole, bayard, berk, birdbrain, blither, bobchin, bonehead, bozo, brickhead, buffoon, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, clart, clown, der-brain, dill pickle, dim bulb, dingleberry, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbrain, div, divvo, divvy, dolt, donk, doodle, doofus, dope, dork, dote, dotterel, dullard, dumb fuck, dumbass, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, fathead, fenderhead, fiddle, fuckwit, fuzznut, geck, gig, gink, goober, gooseberry, gowk, gubbins, gump, ha'p'orth, hang back, hinder, hold up, hold-up, ignoramus, impede, jamoke, jerk, jerkoff, jolterhead, jolthead, juggins, jughead, knucklehead, lamebrain, mameluke (US (Italian-American), maroon, meathead, mental deficient, mong, mug, muggins, mushhead, nimrod, nincompoop, nit, nitwit, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, numps, numpty, numskull, nupson, oaf, pillock, pinhead, plonker, postpone, prat, put off, retard, retardation, retarded, schmo, schmuck, shit for brains, shithead, shitwit, slang), snapperhead, softhead, sot, stay back, stupid, sucker, tard, thickhead, tonto, tool, tosser, tosspot, twat, twerp, twit, wally, wantwit, wazzock, yampy

Antonyms

accelerate, come forward, speed, speed up

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