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Retard vs Autist - What's the difference?

retard | autist |

As nouns the difference between retard and autist

is that retard is retardation; delay while autist is an autistic person.

As a verb retard

is to keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder.

retard

English

(wikipedia retard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Retardation; delay.
  • (slang, offensive) A person with mental retardation.
    • Do all retards have a low I.Q.?
  • (slang, offensive) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn.

    • Synonyms

    * (retardation) delay, hold-up, retardation * (person with mental retardation) idiot, tard (offensive), imbecile (disused medical term), mental deficient (legal term), moron (disused medical term), person with learning difficulties * (stupid person) See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder
    • retard the march of an army
    retard the motion of a ship
  • To put off; to postpone.
    • to retard the attacks of old age
    to retard a rupture between nations
  • (obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
  • To decelerate; to slow down.
  • (obsolete) To stay back.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)

    Synonyms

    * decelerate, hinder, slow, slow down * (postpone) postpone, put off * (stay back) hang back, stay back

    Antonyms

    * accelerate, speed, speed up * (postpone) * (stay back) come forward

    Derived terms

    * retarded

    References

    * IQ Basics, including formerly used medical terms for people with very low IQs

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----

    autist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An autistic person.
  • * 1995 , Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars
    • Most autists are not artists, as most artists are not autists; but in the chance of their coming together
  • * 2011 , W M Bernstein, A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis
    • Like children and animals, autists have relatively rudimentary conceptual lives.