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soft in the head

Mentally deficient; also, silly, foolish. For example, He's nice enough but a bit soft in the head. The soft in this idiom, first recorded in 1775, alludes to a weakness in mental capacity.

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Related Words for soft in the head

dim-witted, dumb, half-witted, moronic, retarded, simple, slow, stupid, unintelligent, weak-minded, imbecilic, dull-witted