feeble-minded
adjEtymology English feeble-minded
1
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.”2019 May 28, Ariane de Vogue, “Why Clarence Thomas wrote over a dozen pages on eugenics”, in CNN:
- Derived terms
- feeb
- Related terms
- feeble-mindedly, feeble-mindedness