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feeble-minded

[ fee-buhl-mahyn-did ]

adjective

  1. lacking the normal mental powers.
  2. Medicine/Medical. (no longer in technical use) mentally deficient.
  3. stupid or foolish; not sensible:

    feeble-minded remarks.

  4. Archaic. lacking firmness of mind; indecisive.


feeble-minded

adjective

  1. lacking in intelligence; stupid
  2. mentally defective
  3. lacking decision; irresolute
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌfeeble-ˈmindedly, adverb
  • ˌfeeble-ˈmindedness, noun
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Other Words From

  • feeble-minded·ly adverb
  • feeble-minded·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of feeble-minded1

First recorded in 1525–35
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Example Sentences

Some people chose to infer that we believed humans to be feeble-minded, which we never did.

When she reached home the night before everything was on the sidewalk, and her feeble-minded sister was watching them.

And I reckin that's the cause of my bein' here to-day, accused of bein' feeble-minded.

In asylums for such patients, feeble-minded children not infrequently make sexual attempts on nurses and on other inmates.

If a feeble-minded person marry a sound, normal person (pure stock), all the children will be normal.

If the children, in the last case, marry others like themselves as to origin, one fourth of their offspring will be feeble-minded.

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