mental retardation

Questions about mental retardation

What is another word for mental retardation?

It depends which mental retardation you mean. In the sense “lack of normal development of intellectual capacities”, the synonyms are retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mental retardation?

WordNet records no antonym for mental retardation. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for mental retardation come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of mental retardation

• Full entry for mental retardationAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mental retardationWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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