feeble-minded

adj

Etymology

Etymology tree Anglo-Norman feblebor. Middle English feble English feeble English mind English -ed English minded English feeble-minded

  1. derived from feblebor

Definitions

  1. Weak in intellectual power

    Weak in intellectual power; lacking firmness or constancy; lacking intelligence.

    • Wading through history, he noted that some eugenicists believed that the “distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines,” and others would define a person as “feeble-minded.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for feeble-minded. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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