Retard vs. Moron — What's the Difference?

To cause to move or proceed slowly; delay or impede.

A person who is considered foolish or stupid.

To be delayed.

A person with mild intellectual disability having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.

A slowing down or hindering of progress; a delay.

A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.

(Music) A slackening of tempo.

A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70.

Used as a disparaging term for a person with an intellectual disability.

A mentally retarded person whose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no further development; an adult having the mental development of an 8-to-12-year old. A moron is considered capable of doing routine work under supervision.

A person considered to be foolish or socially inept.

Hence, a very stupid person.

Retardation; delay.

An inferior olive size having a woody pulp and a large clingstone pit, growing in the mountainous and high-valley districts around the city of Moron, in Spain.

(music) A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando.

A person of subnormal intelligence

A person with mental retardation.

A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.

(transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing.

(transitive) To put off; to postpone.

To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).

(intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down.

To stay back.

To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; - opposed to accelerate.

To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.

To stay back.

Retardation; delay.

A mentally retarded person.

A person who is stupid or inept, especially in social situations.

A person of subnormal intelligence

Slow the growth or development of;

Cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate;

Be delayed

Lose velocity; move more slowly;