regarded

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of regard.

   Critics regarded the film as a bold departure from the director's earlier work.

   For decades the treaty was regarded as the foundation of regional peace.

   Note

   One spelling covers both forms. It is the simple past in she regarded the map, the passive in the map was regarded with suspicion, and the perfect in they had regarded it closely. Most uses carry the meaning "consider" and take as: was regarded as a classic. The sense "take notice of" is archaic, so regarded meaning "noticed" reads as literary.

2. 2
   adjectiveeuphemistic

   An intentional respelling of retarded, used in online writing to evade automated content filters while keeping the offensive sense of foolish or reckless.

   The forum roasted him as regarded for selling right before the stock doubled.

   Posting your account password in a public chat is a regarded thing to do.

   Similarstupid, idiotic, dumb, moronic, foolish

   Oppositesmart, sensible

   Note

   A spelling born on the imageboard 4chan and spread on Reddit from around 2022, as platforms increasingly censored retard and retarded. The disguise is only on the page. Readers still hear the original word, so it carries the same offense and should be handled like the slur it replaces. It works as a gradable adjective (very regarded, kinda regarded, most regarded), and outsiders can easily misread it as the past tense of regard.

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