developmentally challenged

1. 1.

   people collectively who are mentally retarded

   “he started a school for the retarded”

   Synonymsmentally retardedretarded

   Broaderpeople

Questions about developmentally challenged

What does developmentally challenged mean?

developmentally challenged means "people collectively who are mentally retarded".

What is another word for developmentally challenged?

Close synonyms include mentally retarded, retarded. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is developmentally challenged a common word?

developmentally challenged is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.