difference between stupid idiot etc.

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what is the difference between stupid, idiot, dumb, crazy insane if there is more a definition for it would be appreciated

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[+3] - Lordyaswas - 03/25/2016Stupid, Idiot, Dumb, Crazy and Insane were the five dwarves who never made it past the first stage Snow White auditions.

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@MegaMoh,

Stupid, Idiot, Dumb, Crazy and Insane were the five dwarves who never made it past the first stage Snow White auditions.

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@Lordyaswas,

LOL no I am serios what's the diffrence

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@MegaMoh,

They're words not scientifically configured distinct units of measurements.

Look the words up in a dictionary. Whatever you can find there, that's basically all you're going to get for an answer.

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To call someone stupid, [an] idiot or dumb implies they are severely lacking in intelligence. Such a condition is inborn and permanent. To call someone crazy or insane implies they have a mental illness e.g. schizophrenia, psychosis, whatever. Crazy or insane people can be of any level of intelligence, from low to high.

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@Tes yeux noirs,

and dumb is also a word to describe someone who cannot vocalize words: think Helen Keller. I don't know if that is used now. Maybe it is p.c. not to.

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@ossobuco,

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Maybe it is p.c. not to.

I think kind people probably say aphonic, aphasic, etc depending on the reason for the lack of speech. Mute is fairly inoffensive I think.

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@Tes yeux noirs,

There's gotta be a difference I mean it can't be just added ti English with the same meaning

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@MegaMoh,

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There's gotta be a difference I mean it can't be just added ti English with the same meaning

There are differences which I have explained already.

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@MegaMoh,

Stupid is an adjective. Idiot is a noun or a person.

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@Tes yeux noirs,

ok thanks I guess that's an answer then

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@Tes yeux noirs,

Oh they do? Well that's stupid. Plain words work best.

I was struck aphonic by his effrontery.

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@McTag,

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Oh they do? Well that's stupid. Plain words work best.

I'm not saying nobody can say "dumb", "blind", etc, ever, but surely you would not call a clumsy person a "spaz" in front of someone who had cerebral palsy, or whose child did, or say "dumb mongol" in front of someone who cared for an aphonic child with Down's syndrome? It's just being sensitive.

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Oxford dict is smarter than anyone here.
Are you too dumb to check out what the best teacher says?

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The efforts Tes and McTag et al. made were important of course. I mean you could make things better by first checking out Oxford dict and asked more proper questions here. In this way people here could have been more efficient in doing things more important.

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