feeble-minded

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feeble-minded

adjective more feeble-minded · feebler-minded · most feeble-minded · feeblest-minded

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.”
Similar: irresolute, vacillating, imbecile

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adj unintelligent

Español	pusilánime
Português	débil mental
Français	faible d'esprit
Deutsch	schwachsinnig

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@misc{feeble_minded_2026,
  title = {feeble-minded},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/feeble-minded},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}