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Words related to retardation

Related / Similar Words: slowdown, lag, deceleration, slowing, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality, retardant, retardent

Definition:

the act of slowing down or falling behind;

a decrease in speed; "the deceleration of the arms race";

lack of normal development of intellectual capacities;

any agent that retards or delays or hinders; "flame-retardant";

the extent to which something is delayed or held back;

Hyponyms: abnormality, mental defectiveness, moronity, mental deficiency, idiocy, amentia, imbecility, mongolism, mongolianism, Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, trisomy 21

Derivational Morphology: retard, decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind, slack, slacken, check, delay

Anagrams: Tetraonidae

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