idiocracy
UK/ˌɪdiˈɒkɹəsi//ˌɪdiˈɑkɹəsi/
idiocracy noun: a government run by idiots.
Noun
idiocracy (countable and uncountable, plural idiocracies)
- A government run by idiots.
- 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...2010 February 6, Jacob Weisberg, “Down With the People”, in Slate, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2019
- A society where idiocy is the norm, often denoting the current state of the world.
Antonyms of idiocracy
Forms of idiocracy
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Origin of idiocracy
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.
Words formed from idiocracy
Words that rhyme with idiocracy
- democracy
- bureaucracy
- aristocracy
- autocracy
- corpocracy
- critocracy
- czarocracy
- demonocracy
- dollarocracy
- hierocracy
- pornocracy
- thalassocracy
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- adhocracy
- albocracy
- algocracy
- Americanocracy
- androcracy
- argentocracy
- arithmocracy
- atheocracy
- athletocracy
- blobocracy
- boobocracy
- chirocracy
- chrysocracy
- clericocracy
- clerocracy
- corporatocracy
- corruptocracy
- cosmocracy
- cottonocracy
- cryptocracy
- cyberocracy
- demagocracy
- despotocracy
- ecclesiocracy
- ecocracy
- economocracy
- elitocracy
- ephebocracy
- familiocracy
- foolocracy
- geniocracy
- ideocracy
- idiocrasy
- infantocracy
- kludgeocracy
- mediocracy
- merocracy
- xerocracy
Questions about idiocracy
- What does idiocracy mean?
- Idiocracy means a government run by idiots.
- What part of speech is idiocracy?
- Idiocracy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce idiocracy?
- Idiocracy is pronounced /ˌɪdiˈɒkɹəsi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of idiocracy?
- The plural of idiocracy is idiocracies.
Words near idiocracy in the dictionary
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