feeble-minded
[fee-buh l-mahyn-did]
- 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.
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Origin of feeble-minded
First recorded in 1525–35
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From this Glenwood home for the feebleminded she was released.
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the WorldClifton R. Wooldridge
Marriage with a feebleminded person not only should be advised against, but should be prohibited by law.
WomanWilliam J. Robinson
A feebleminded man has much fewer chances for marriage than has a feebleminded woman.
WomanWilliam J. Robinson
Of the feebleminded, there are 20,199 in the institutions for that class of defectives.
So far, I have escaped the penitentiary and the home for feebleminded.
feeble-minded
- lacking in intelligence; stupid
- mentally defective
- lacking decision; irresolute
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