Synonyms for feebleminded


Grammar : Adj
Spell : fee-buh l-mahyn-did
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfi bəlˈmaɪn dɪd

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Définition of feebleminded

Origin :
  • 1530s; see feeble + mind. Related: Feeblemindedness.
  • adj mentally handicapped
Example sentences :
  • From this Glenwood home for the feebleminded she was released.
  • Extract from : « Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World » by Clifton R. Wooldridge
  • Marriage with a feebleminded person not only should be advised against, but should be prohibited by law.
  • Extract from : « Woman » by William J. Robinson
  • A feebleminded man has much fewer chances for marriage than has a feebleminded woman.
  • Extract from : « Woman » by William J. Robinson
  • Of the feebleminded, there are 20,199 in the institutions for that class of defectives.
  • Extract from : « Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913 » by Various
  • So far, I have escaped the penitentiary and the home for feebleminded.
  • Extract from : « Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913 » by Various
  • She ruled, but did so with such exquisite tact that her feebleminded lord never suspected it.
  • Extract from : « Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. III. (of III) » by Rosalie Kaufman
  • He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy though not feebleminded in the medical sense.
  • Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
  • Her daughter is feebleminded—her herb remedies can't cure her!
  • Extract from : « Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States » by Work Projects Administration

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