Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mentally challenged

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables
men-tal-ly chal-lenged
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having low intelligence.

adj

Having a mental illness.

Inflected Forms

more mentally challenged (comparative) most mentally challenged (superlative)

Phrases

humanly challenged

Synonyms

intellectually disabled mentally retarded addlebrained addlepated airheaded bee-brained beef-witted soft beefheaded beetle-headed birdbrained blockheaded

Questions

What does mentally challenged mean?
Having low intelligence.

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