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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
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Derived Forms

  • ˌڱ-ˈԻ, adverb
  • ˌڱ-ˈԻԱ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ڱb-ԻĻ· adverb
  • ڱb-ԻĻ·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of feeble-minded1

First recorded in 1525–35
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Among the “defects” of others on the survey were wanderer, illiterate, feeble-minded, liar, deserted husband, town pauper, obstinate, alcoholic and bearer of stillborn twins.

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The eviction by the state was a catastrophe: Eight islanders were committed to the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded, according to the Maine Coast Heritage Trust.

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Eleanor, who was born with cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder, dies only a year after her parents reluctantly send her to the Walter E. Fernald State School, once known as the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded.

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In other instances, it could be due to a "sick-leader syndrome," in which dolphins unwittingly follow an older, confused and feeble-minded dolphin to their death.

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They devised a plan that pits the former president squarely against his successor, President Biden, who Mr. Trump will define as a feeble-minded octogenarian who has dragged the United States into a ditch and is too weak to lead the nation out of it.

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