Imbecilic vs Inane - What's the difference?
imbecilic | inane | Related terms |
like or as an imbecile; so senseless as to be laughable; absurd, foolish, stupid, idiotic.
Lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance).
purposeless; pointless
* I. Taylor
That which is void or empty.
* Locke
*1881 , :
Imbecilic is a related term of inane.
As adjectives the difference between imbecilic and inane
is that imbecilic is like or as an imbecile; so senseless as to be laughable; absurd, foolish, stupid, idiotic while inane is lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance).As a noun inane is
that which is void or empty.imbecilic
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Adjective
(en adjective)inane
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Adjective
(en adjective)- This supremely gifted kid told me that in the early elementary grades, the songs sung in music class were so inane that he wanted to skip grades already! Eventually he did, so better late than never.
- Vague and inane instincts.
Synonyms
* (lacking sense) silly, fatuous, vapidDerived terms
* inanely * inanityNoun
(en noun)- The undistinguishable inane of infinite space.
- [...] whom we watch as we watch the clouds careering in the windy, bottomless inane , or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals.