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Synonyms for retard
rɪˈtɑrd for 1-3, 5 ; ˈri tɑrd for 4re·tard
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Wiktionary
retardverb
To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder
Synonyms:
idiot, moron, tard, learning difficulties, hold-up, imbecile, delay, mental deficient, retardationretardverb
A person with mental retardation.
retardverb
To stay back.
Antonyms:
come forwardretardverb
Synonyms:
hinder, slow down, slow, decelerateAntonyms:
speed, accelerate, speed up
English Synonyms and Antonyms
retard
To hinder is to keep from action, progress, motion, or growth, or to make such action, progress, motion, or growth later in beginning or completion than it would otherwise have been. An action is prevented by anything that comes in before it to make it impossible; it is hindered by anything that keeps it from either beginning or ending so soon as it otherwise would, or as expected or intended. It is more common, however, to say that the start is delayed, the progress hindered. An action that is hindered does not take place at the appointed or appropriate time; that which is prevented does not take place at all; to hinder a thing long enough may amount to preventing it. A railroad-train may be hindered by a snow-storm from arriving on time; it may by special order be prevented from starting. To retard is simply to make slow by any means whatever. To obstruct is to hinder, or possibly to prevent advance or passage by putting something in the way; to oppose or resist is to hinder, or possibly to prevent by directly contrary or hostile action, resist being the stronger term and having more suggestion of physical force; obstructed roads hinder the march of an enemy, tho there may be no force strong enough to oppose it; one opposes a measure, a motion, an amendment, or the like; it is a criminal offense to resist an officer in the discharge of his duty; the physical system may resist the attack of disease or the action of a remedy. Compare CONQUER; IMPEDIMENT; OBSTRUCT.
See synonyms for QUICKEN.
Synonyms:
baffle, balk, bar, block, check, clog, counteract, delay, embarrass, encumber, foil, frustrate, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, obstruct, oppose, prevent, resist, stay, stop, thwartPreposition:
Hinder one in his progress; from acting promptly; by opposition.
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Princeton's WordNet
idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retardverb
a person of subnormal intelligence
Synonyms:
nitwit, moron, doofus, cretin, dimwit, idiot, changeling, imbecile, half-witretardverb
cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate
"This drug will retard your heart rate"
retardverb
be delayed
check, retard, delayverb
slow the growth or development of
"The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
Synonyms:
checker, check, slow up, slow down, moderate, mark, slow, watch, look into, crack, check up on, arrest, go over, tick off, match, tick, fit, hold back, stop, ascertain, determine, assure, find out, agree, turn back, stay, check into, train, break, control, check off, check out, learn, curb, hold up, hold, see to it, see, chequer, discipline, mark off, tally, ensure, decelerate, hold in, suss out, detain, contain, check over, jibe, condition, delay, correspond, insure, gibedecelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retardverb
lose velocity; move more slowly
"The car decelerated"
Synonyms:
decompress, delay, slack, check, unwind, loosen up, slow up, decelerate, unbend, slacken, relax, slow down, slow
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
retardverb
Synonyms:
impede
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #64 | see | |
| #272 | check | |
| #333 | control | |
| #424 | learn | |
| #834 | mark | |
| #871 | watch | |
| #1001 | stay | |
| #1038 | stop | |
| #1042 | bar | |
| #1067 | condition | |
| #1275 | hold | |
| #1372 | ensure | |
| #1536 | match | |
| #1618 | break | |
| #1662 | block | |
| #1734 | agree | |
| #1914 | determine | |
| #1931 | fit | |
| #2167 | prevent | |
| #2505 | train | |
| #2700 | contain | |
| #2901 | slow | |
| #3446 | delay | |
| #4224 | crack | |
| #4775 | stupid | |
| #5420 | moderate | |
| #5491 | discipline | |
| #6781 | relax | |
| #7231 | assure | |
| #7523 | arrest | |
| #9564 | dumb | |
| #9957 | resist | |
| #10044 | insure | |
| #10551 | idiot | |
| #10816 | foil | |
| #10852 | tick | |
| #11623 | interrupt | |
| #11919 | correspond | |
| #12242 | oppose | |
| #12394 | checker | |
| #12551 | curb | |
| #17781 | slack | |
| #18615 | tally | |
| #19789 | retardation | |
| #19866 | ascertain | |
| #20760 | retarded | |
| #22854 | hinder | |
| #23567 | defer | |
| #23611 | hamper | |
| #25712 | unwind | |
| #26048 | moron | |
| #28220 | postpone | |
| #29400 | impede | |
| #30189 | clog | |
| #34071 | retard | |
| #36264 | thwart | |
| #36830 | counteract | |
| #39730 | obstruct | |
| #40155 | detain | |
| #41205 | baffle | |
| #43520 | embarrass | |
| #49040 | frustrate | |
| #53908 | balk | |
| #59637 | decompress | |
| #63623 | moronic | |
| #67247 | tard | |
| #76667 | changeling | |
| #85364 | jibe | |
| #98357 | imbecile | |
| #98831 | encumber | |
| #99861 | nutcase | |
| #102513 | chequer | |
| #103768 | cretin | |
| #108861 | doofus | |
| #131669 | decelerate | |
| #154483 | slacken | |
| #156420 | nitwit | |
| #170039 | dimwit | |
| #213898 | gibe |
How to use retard in a sentence?
You're a retard.
Richard Okay... seatbelts. Just put the little thing into the big thing and... I tell ya what. If you don't know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I'll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer because you're a RETARD
Translations for retard
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- idioot, uitstel, vertragings, mongole, vertraagdes, nole, nool, agterbly, mongool, vertraging, vertraag, idiote, vertraagdeAfrikaans
- تأخيرArabic
- perecear, retardarSpanish
- kehari, hidaste, lykätä, jarruttaa, viivyttää, jälkeenjäänyt, hidastaa, idiootti, viive, vähä-älyinenFinnish
- retard, retardé, attardéFrench
- कम करनाHindi
- tardigarIdo
- ritardato mentale, ritardareItalian
- リタードJapanese
- 병신Korean
- retardantLatin
- mogoolDutch
- задержка, тормозить, задерживать, дебил, замедление, тормоз, откладыватьRussian
- hämmaSwedish
- رکھوUrdu
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