Synonyms for retard
rɪˈtɑrd for 1-3, 5 ; ˈri tɑrd for 4re·tard

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1. retardverb

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

   Synonyms:
   idiot, moron, tard, learning difficulties, hold-up, imbecile, delay, mental deficient, retardation

2. retardverb

   A person with mental retardation.

   Synonyms:
   postpone, put off

3. retardverb

   To stay back.

   Synonyms:
   hang back, stay back

   Antonyms:
   come forward

4. retardverb

   Synonyms:
   hinder, slow down, slow, decelerate

   Antonyms:
   speed, accelerate, speed up

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1. retard

   To hinder is to keep from action, progress, motion, or growth, or to make such action, progress, motion, or growth later in beginning or completion than it would otherwise have been. An action is prevented by anything that comes in before it to make it impossible; it is hindered by anything that keeps it from either beginning or ending so soon as it otherwise would, or as expected or intended. It is more common, however, to say that the start is delayed, the progress hindered. An action that is hindered does not take place at the appointed or appropriate time; that which is prevented does not take place at all; to hinder a thing long enough may amount to preventing it. A railroad-train may be hindered by a snow-storm from arriving on time; it may by special order be prevented from starting. To retard is simply to make slow by any means whatever. To obstruct is to hinder, or possibly to prevent advance or passage by putting something in the way; to oppose or resist is to hinder, or possibly to prevent by directly contrary or hostile action, resist being the stronger term and having more suggestion of physical force; obstructed roads hinder the march of an enemy, tho there may be no force strong enough to oppose it; one opposes a measure, a motion, an amendment, or the like; it is a criminal offense to resist an officer in the discharge of his duty; the physical system may resist the attack of disease or the action of a remedy. Compare CONQUER; IMPEDIMENT; OBSTRUCT.

   See synonyms for QUICKEN.

   Synonyms:
   baffle, balk, bar, block, check, clog, counteract, delay, embarrass, encumber, foil, frustrate, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, obstruct, oppose, prevent, resist, stay, stop, thwart

   Preposition:
   Hinder one in his progress; from acting promptly; by opposition.

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1. retard

   Synonyms:
   clog, hinder, obstruct, impede, defer

   Antonyms:
   accelerate, expedite, promote

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1. idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retardverb

   a person of subnormal intelligence

   Synonyms:
   nitwit, moron, doofus, cretin, dimwit, idiot, changeling, imbecile, half-wit

2. retardverb

   cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate

   "This drug will retard your heart rate"

   Synonyms:
   decelerate, slow down, slow up, check, slow, delay

3. retardverb

   be delayed

   Synonyms:
   decelerate, slow down, slow up, check, slow, delay

4. check, retard, delayverb

   slow the growth or development of

   "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"

   Synonyms:
   checker, check, slow up, slow down, moderate, mark, slow, watch, look into, crack, check up on, arrest, go over, tick off, match, tick, fit, hold back, stop, ascertain, determine, assure, find out, agree, turn back, stay, check into, train, break, control, check off, check out, learn, curb, hold up, hold, see to it, see, chequer, discipline, mark off, tally, ensure, decelerate, hold in, suss out, detain, contain, check over, jibe, condition, delay, correspond, insure, gibe

5. decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retardverb

   lose velocity; move more slowly

   "The car decelerated"

   Synonyms:
   decompress, delay, slack, check, unwind, loosen up, slow up, decelerate, unbend, slacken, relax, slow down, slow

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1. retardverb

   Synonyms:
   check, obstruct, clog, impede, hinder

2. retardverb

   Synonyms:
   delay, defer, postpone, adjourn, procrastinate, put off

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1. retardverb

   Synonyms:
   impede

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1. List of paraphrases for "retard":

   retarded, delay, nutcase, stupid, moron, dumb, moronic

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1. Tommy Boy:

   Richard Okay... seatbelts. Just put the little thing into the big thing and... I tell ya what. If you don't know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I'll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer because you're a RETARD

2. Gabriel Miles:

   You're a retard.