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feebleminded

feebleminded is the alternative spelling of feeble-minded.

Meaning of feeble-minded

Adjective

feeble-minded (comparative more feeble-minded or feebler-minded, superlative most feeble-minded or feeblest-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

Forms of feebleminded

comparativemore feebleminded
superlativemost feebleminded

Words formed from feebleminded

Questions about feebleminded

What is feebleminded the alternative spelling of?
Feebleminded is the alternative spelling of feeble-minded.

Words near feebleminded in the dictionary

  1. feeble-minded
  2. feeble-mindedly
  3. feeble-mindedness
  4. feeble-mindednesses
  5. feebled
  6. feebleminded
  7. feeblemindedly
  8. feeblemindedness
  9. feeblemindednesses
  10. feebleness
  11. feeblenesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: feebleminded (page history and authors); feeble-minded (page history and authors). 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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