What does mentally retarded mean?

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

What is another word for mentally retarded?

Close synonyms include retarded, developmentally challenged. 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 mentally retarded a common word?

mentally retarded 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.

Mentally retarded — meaning and 2 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
people collectively who are mentally retarded
“he started a school for the retarded”
Synonymsretarded developmentally challenged
Broaderpeople

Questions about mentally retarded

What does mentally retarded mean?: mentally retarded means "people collectively who are mentally retarded".
What is another word for mentally retarded?: Close synonyms include retarded, developmentally challenged. 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.

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