🇬🇧 Idiotic meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Idiotic means doing or saying something so silly and foolish that people might laugh or shake their heads because it makes no sense at all. It’s used to describe actions or ideas, not to be mean to people. For example, if someone wears socks on their hands and then wonders why their feet are cold, that’s an idiotic choice.

My idiotic plan to hide from chores was standing perfectly still and hoping I’d turn invisible.

It was idiotic to use my sandwich as a bookmark and then wonder why my page tasted like mustard.

My idiotic math method was just writing random numbers until one looked correct.

The cat stared at my idiotic dance moves like I was inventing a new type of confusion.

Building a pillow fort on a trampoline was an idiotic engineering project that launched cushions everywhere.

Alex made an idiotic plan: carry a full kettle across a slippery deck. His idiotic balance failed; the kettle slid into a child's toy boat. He made another idiotic move, chasing it in socks, slipped, and landed drenched. The child's mother laughed, called his antics idiotic but forgiving, and he gave an idiotic grin as she handed him a towel.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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