"intellectually challenged" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more intellectually challenged [comparative], most intellectually challenged [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} intellectually challenged (comparative more intellectually challenged, superlative most intellectually challenged)
  1. (euphemistic, of a person) Of low intelligence; stupid. Tags: euphemistic
    Sense id: en-intellectually_challenged-en-adj-MmJCijOa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English euphemisms, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Synonyms: asinine, balmy [US, informal], barmy [Britain, Ireland, informal], bedaft, daft, derpy [slang], dim-headed, dim-witted, dopey, dull-headed, dull-witted, dumb, duncical, fatuous, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gauvison [UK, dialectal], goofy, idiotic, idle [obsolete], insipient, mookish, naive, silly, simple [euphemistic], slight [obsolete], slow-witted, softheaded, soft in the head, sottish [dated], stupid, thick, unsage, unwise, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, crackpot, dense
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          "word": "fatuous"
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          "word": "naive"
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          "word": "derpy"
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          "word": "fatuous"
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          "word": "sottish"
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        {
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          "word": "stupid"
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          "word": "thick"
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        {
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          "word": "unsage"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:foolish",
          "word": "unwise"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:foolish",
          "word": "wool-headed"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:foolish",
          "word": "woolly-headed"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:foolish",
          "word": "woolly-minded"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:foolish",
          "word": "crackpot"
        },
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