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feeble-minded

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fee·ble-mind·ed (fbl-mndd)
adj.
1. Offensive Deficient in intelligence.
2. Exhibiting a marked lack of intelligent consideration and forethought: feeble-minded excuses; a feeble-minded plan doomed to failure.
3. Obsolete Irresolute and weak-willed.
feeble-minded·ly adv.
feeble-minded·ness n.
feeble-minded
Adjective
unable to think or understand effectively
Translations
feeble-minded [fiːblˈmaɪndɪd] adj → imbécil
feeble-minded [ˈfiːblˈmaɪndɪd] adj → faible d'esprit
feeble-minded [ˈfiːblˈmaɪndɪd] feeble adj → dümmlich
feeble-minded [fiːblˈmaɪndɪd] adj → deficiente


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“The consideration of this subject is full of consolation, my hearers, and does not fail to bring with it lessons of humility and of profit, that, duly improved, would both chasten the heart and strengthen the feeble-minded man in his course.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
The vagueness of the project, and the convulsive effort with which he plunges into the execution of it, are equally characteristic of a feeble-minded man.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Georgiana said she dreaded being left alone with Eliza; from her she got neither sympathy in her dejection, support in her fears, nor aid in her preparations; so I bore with her feeble-minded wailings and selfish lamentations as well as I could, and did my best in sewing for her and packing her dresses.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
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