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mentally retarded
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mentally retarded has 1 sense
- mentally retarded(n = noun.group) developmentally challenged, retarded - people collectively who are mentally retarded; "he started a school for the retarded" is a kind of people
THESAURUS
mentally retarded
arrested, babbling, backward, blithering, burbling, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, dithering, driveling, drooling, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mongoloid, moronic, not all there, retarded, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, subnormal
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