feeble-minded
feeble-minded adjective: weak in intellectual power; lacking firmness or constancy; lacking intelligence.
Adjective
feeble-minded (comparative more feeble-minded or feebler-minded, superlative most feeble-minded or 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.”2019 May 28, Ariane de Vogue, “Why Clarence Thomas wrote over a dozen pages on eugenics”, in CNN
- Synonyms:
- irresolute, vacillating, imbecile
feeble-minded meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
feeble-minded in Tamil
- மனவலிவுக் குறைவுடைய
feeble-minded in Malayalam
- idiotic, stupid, imbecilic
- മനോബലമില്ലാത്ത, ദുർബ്ബലമനസ്കനായ, ഭേല, മൂഢനായ, താമസ, മൂഢതയുള്ള
- having learning difficulties, having special (educational) needs, backward
- പഠനവെെകല്യമുള്ള, പഠനശേഷികുറഞ്ഞ, നിഷ്പ്രതിഭ, മന്ദബുദ്ധിയായ, പിന്നോക്കം നിൽക്കുന്ന, മാനസികവളർച്ചയില്ലാത്ത
Synonyms of feeble-minded
Forms of feeble-minded
| comparative | more feeble-minded |
|---|---|
| comparative | feebler-minded |
| superlative | most feeble-minded |
| superlative | feeblest-minded |
Words formed from feeble-minded
Questions about feeble-minded
- What does feeble-minded mean?
- Feeble-minded means weak in intellectual power; lacking firmness or constancy; lacking intelligence.
- What is feeble-minded in Tamil?
- Feeble-minded in Tamil is மனவலிவுக் குறைவுடைய. See Feeble-minded meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is feeble-minded?
- Feeble-minded is an adjective.
Words near feeble-minded in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: feeble-minded (page history and authors); feeble-minded (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); feeble-minded (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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