feebleminded

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adjective

lacking the normal mental powers.

Medicine/Medical. (formerly) mentally retarded. Compare idiot, imbecile, moron.

stupid; unintelligent: feeble-minded remarks.

Archaic. lacking firmness of mind; indecisive.

Origin:
1525–35

Related forms

fee·ble-mind·ed·ly, adverb

fee·ble-mind·ed·ness, noun

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feeble-minded

—*adj*
1.	lacking in intelligence; stupid
2.	mentally defective
3.	lacking decision; irresolute

feeble-'mindedly

—*adv*

feeble-'mindedness

—n

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Word Origin & History

feebleminded

1530s; see feeble + mind. Related: Feeblemindedness.

Example sentences

The feebleminded are notoriously prolific in reproduction.

The section is also amended to delete the reference to insanity proceedings or proceedings for the feebleminded.

The development of intelligence tests led to what was considered a scientific method of identifying the feebleminded.

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"Professor Bloom is a finished example of the new womanly man. His moral nature is simple and lovable. Many have found him a dear man, a dear person. He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy though not feebleminded in the medical sense. He has written a really beautiful letter, a poem in itself, to the court missionary of the Reformed Priests' Protection Society which clears up everything. He is practically a total abstainer and I can affirm that he sleeps on a straw litter and eats the most Spartan food, cold dried grocer's peas. He wears a hairshirt of pure Irish manufacture winter and summer and scourges himself every Saturday. He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory. Another report states that he was a very posthumous child. I appeal for clemency in the name of the most sacred word our vocal organs have ever been called upon to speak. He is about to have a baby."

-James Joyce