# regarded

Pronunciation: US say "ri-GAR-did" /ɹɪˈɡɑɹ.dəd/; UK say "ri-GAH-did" /ɹɪˈɡɑː.dəd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of regard. — simple past and past participle of regard
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of regard. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
   - _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._

## Adjective

2. An intentional respelling of retarded, used in online writing to evade automated content filters while keeping the offensive sense of foolish or reckless.
   - Simple: A deliberate misspelling of retarded, written this way online to slip past word filters. It means 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._

## Origin

It originated on the imageboard website 4chan and was popularized on Reddit beginning around 2022, used in response to increasing censorship of the words "retard" and "retarded".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/regarded (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).