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feeble-brained

feeble-brained adjective: feeble-minded, harebrained.

Adjective

feeble-brained (comparative more feeble-brained or feebler-brained, superlative most feeble-brained or feeblest-brained)

  1. (archaic) Feeble-minded, harebrained.
    • She was not clene ensaymed,
      She was not wel reclaymed;
      But the fawconer unfayned
      Was moch more febler brayned.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 79–83

Forms of feeble-brained

comparativemore feeble-brained
comparativefeebler-brained
superlativemost feeble-brained
superlativefeeblest-brained

Questions about feeble-brained

What does feeble-brained mean?
Feeble-brained means feeble-minded, harebrained.
What part of speech is feeble-brained?
Feeble-brained is an adjective.

Words near feeble-brained in the dictionary

  1. feebate
  2. feebates
  3. Feebie
  4. Feebies
  5. feeble
  6. feeble-brained
  7. feeble-minded
  8. feeble-mindedly
  9. feeble-mindedness
  10. feeble-mindednesses
  11. feebled

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