- a rude way to describe a person that you think is very stupid笨蛋;蠢货 synonym idiot
- They behaved like imbeciles.他们表现得像傻瓜。
- (old-fashioned, offensive) a person who has a very low level of intelligence低能者;弱智者
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as an adjective in the sense ‘physically weak’): via French from Latin imbecillus, literally ‘without a supporting staff’, from in- (expressing negation) + baculum ‘stick, staff’. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.