feeble-minded

[ fee-buh l-mahyn-did ]

/ ˈfi bəlˈmaɪn dɪd /

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adjective

lacking the normal mental powers.

Medicine/Medical. (no longer in technical use) mentally deficient.

stupid or foolish; not sensible: feeble-minded remarks.

Archaic. lacking firmness of mind; indecisive.

Origin of feeble-minded

First recorded in 1525–35

OTHER WORDS FROM feeble-minded

fee·ble-mind·ed·ly, adverb fee·ble-mind·ed·ness, noun

Words nearby feeble-minded

fee tail, fee-for-service, fee-splitting, feeb, feeble, feeble-minded, feed, feed a cold; starve a fever, feed bag, feed one's face, feed someone a line

Example sentences from the Web for feebleminded

She ruled, but did so with such exquisite tact that her feebleminded lord never suspected it.

Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. III. (of III) |Rosalie Kaufman
He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy though not feebleminded in the medical sense.

Ulysses |James Joyce
So far, I have escaped the penitentiary and the home for feebleminded.

Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913 |Various
From this Glenwood home for the feebleminded she was released.

Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World |Clifton R. Wooldridge

Of the feebleminded, there are 20,199 in the institutions for that class of defectives.

Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for feebleminded

feeble-minded

adjective

lacking in intelligence; stupid

mentally defective

lacking decision; irresolute

Derived forms of feeble-minded

feeble-mindedly, adverb feeble-mindedness, noun

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feeble-minded

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