feeble-minded
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
1Other words from feeble-minded
- fee·ble-mind·ed·ly, adverb
- fee·ble-mind·ed·ness, noun
Words Nearby feeble-minded
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How to use feeble-minded in a sentence
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.
The Leaven in a Great City | Lillian William BettsAnd I reckin that's the cause of my bein' here to-day, accused of bein' feeble-minded.
From Place to Place | Irvin S. CobbIn asylums for such patients, feeble-minded children not infrequently make sexual attempts on nurses and on other inmates.
The Sexual Life of the Child | Albert MollIf a feeble-minded person marry a sound, normal person (pure stock), all the children will be normal.
The Science of Human Nature | William Henry Pyle
If the children, in the last case, marry others like themselves as to origin, one fourth of their offspring will be feeble-minded.
The Science of Human Nature | William Henry Pyle
British Dictionary definitions for feeble-minded
lacking in intelligence; stupid
mentally defective
lacking decision; irresolute
Derived forms of feeble-minded
- feeble-mindedly, adverb
- feeble-mindedness, noun
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