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RELATED WORDS : mentally retarded retarded depression

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun retarded has 1 sense

• retarded(n = noun.group) developmentally challenged, mentally retarded - people collectively who are mentally retarded; "he started a school for the retarded"
is a kind of people

Adjective retarded has 1 sense

• retarded(a = adj.all) Array - relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development; "providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded"
Antonym: precocious

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THESAURUS

retarded

arrested, babbling, back, backward, behind, behindhand, belated, blithering, blocked, bridled, burbling, checked, constrained, controlled, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, curbed, delayed, delayed-action, detained, dithering, driveling, drooling, guarded, half-baked, half-witted, held up, hung up, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, impeded, in a bind, in abeyance, in check, in leading strings, in remission, inhibited, jammed, late, latish, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, moratory, moronic, never on time, not all there, obstructed, on leash, overdue, pent-up, restrained, set back, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, slow, slowed down, stopped, subnormal, tardy, under control, under discipline, under restraint, unpunctual, unready, untimely

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