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feebler-minded

feebler-minded is the comparative form 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

Questions about feebler-minded

What is feebler-minded the comparative form of?
Feebler-minded is the comparative form of feeble-minded.

Words near feebler-minded in the dictionary

  1. feeblemindedness
  2. feeblemindednesses
  3. feebleness
  4. feeblenesses
  5. feebler
  6. feebler-minded
  7. feebles
  8. feeblesome
  9. feebless
  10. feeblest
  11. feeblest-minded

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