What do YOU think the word retarted is?

Question

I was just wondering what the people of the world thinks!

Answer 1

retarded to make slow as in r****d the timi ng on your motor car

also used to describe people with intellectual impairment (as they are slowed in speed of mind)

now nasty slang as well

Answer 2

You mean retarded? I believe it means someone who has a problem with their brain and may have learning disabilities.. although i don't see why people use that word for other terms.

Answer 3

I myself use the word retarted for someone who is a stupid moron, like.. someone who makes idiot out of them selfs

Even though people use it to discribe a disabled person, it seems like a mean way of  discribing people like that

Answer 4

reatarted.

Answer 5

The word "retarted" is a mispelling. I think you mean "retarded".

Answer 6

Do you mean retarded? Its literal meaning is to slow down. It was used in the past to refer to mentally challenged people but I don't think its used in that sense anymore aside from in a derogatory way.

Answer 7

Retarted is not a word.  I assume you mean...

Main Entry: re·tard·ed  

Pronunciation: \ri-ˈtär-dəd\

Function: adjective

Date: 1895

sometimes offensive : slow or limited in intellectual or emotional development or academic progress

Which is what I think it is.

Answer 8

Well I got all dolled up the other day and went out and it rained so I had to come home and re-tart myself so I suppose when I went back out you could say I was re-tart-ed.

But the word retarded...

It is a disgusting insulting degrading word used by only the ignorant.

Answer 9

To me I think of, to slow down or hinder the advancement or accomplishment of, to impede-Actually that would be r****d.

Answer 10

mentally disabled. mentally handicap.