idiocracy

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌɪdiˈɒkɹəsi/    美 /ˌɪdiˈɑkɹəsi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A government run by idiots. countable,humorous,uncountable
    — In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including: President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, the blustering idiocracy of the cable-news stations, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for any important legislation.
  2. A society where idiocy is the norm, often denoting the current state of the world. countable,derogatory,slang,uncountable

词形变化

idiocracies plural

词汇关系

反义词
geniocracy
衍生词
idiocratic

词源

From idiot + -cracy. The word was coined by the writers of a 2006 movie about the topic, which some have interpreted as presaging, through caricature, the state of the world.
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