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Meanings of mentally retarded in English

Having cognitive deficits and low intelligence.

People collectively who are mentally retarded.

Synonyms
Examples for "developmentally challenged"
Examples for "developmentally challenged"
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People who lack one are considered developmentally challenged, even disabled.
Wired
2
Annika looked at him as if he were developmentally challenged, and he backed out the door.
The preacher
3
Do you see why I feel like I've been stranded in a life skills class for the developmentally challenged?
Disciple of the dog
4
I was really starting to hate the man's laughter: it made me feel like a developmentally challenged kid hamming it up in life skills class.
Disciple of the dog
5
Developmentally challenged, but not insane.
The blood that bonds
Usage of mentally retarded in English
1
A mentally retarded patient with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome had different types of seizures.
Pubmed
2
The cashier looked at me as if I were mentally retarded.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
3
For seemingly forever, an autistic person was regarded as mentally retarded.
Reuters
4
This young man was mentally retarded, autistic and had severe speech and language problems.
Saving max
5
The patients were undergoing monotherapy with supratherapeutic serum level and were not mentally retarded.
Pubmed
6
His son was mentally retarded and lived at a special school in New Jersey.
Night Shift
7
A jury in 2005 decided he was not mentally retarded.
Reuters
8
A few months later, the couple learned that their son was severely mentally retarded.
100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
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It is reminding us of the historical lasting symptom of mentally retarded patient, Ri said.
Reuters
10
Tells about teaching methods, of dealing with some pupils that are mentally retarded... View Article
The new yorker
11
Jeff Sessions, the US attorney general, was mentally retarded.
The Guardian
12
Variability within this syndrome is great; one proposita is in college and another is mentally retarded.
Pubmed
13
The book quoted Trump accusing his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, of being " mentally retarded".
The Guardian
14
I see what you mean... fairly sharp reasoning for a six-year-old supposed to be mentally retarded.
The Short Life
15
Most of these children will ultimately become mentally retarded and dependent on others for their daily care.
Pubmed
16
The principal of the school came running out, chasing his mentally retarded son, Kendall, who was ten.
Escape
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