Adjective: mentally retarded
Usage: offensive
- Relatively slow in mental, emotional or physical development
"providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the mentally retarded";
Usage: offensive
- People with intellectual or developmental disabilities
"he started a school for the mentally retarded";
- developmentally challenged
See also: backward, cretinous, dim-witted [informal], dull-witted [archaic], feebleminded, half-witted, imbecilic [archaic], moronic [archaic, informal], simple, simple-minded, slow-witted, stupid, unintelligent
Type of: people
Encyclopedia: Mentally retarded