Feeble-minded Synonyms

fēbəl-mīndĭd
Having only a limited ability to learn and understand
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dull
  2. simple-minded
  3. retarded
  4. backward
  5. simple
  6. slow
  7. foolish
  8. slow-witted
  9. soft
  10. half-witted
  11. senile
  12. weak-minded

Words Related to Feeble-minded

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. ability
  2. men-folk
  3. post-abuse
  4. feckless
  5. self-obsessed
  6. do-gooder
  7. imbecile
  8. mentally-retarded
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Feeble-minded Sentence Examples

  • The city is the seat of the state asylum for feeble-minded children (established at Jacksonville in 1865 and removed to Lincoln in 1878), and of Lincoln College (Presbyterian) founded in 1865.

  • There are also a Carnegie library, a Lutheran Home for the Feeble-Minded, and a City Hospital.

  • At Frankfort, also, are the state arsenal, the state penitentiary and the state home for feeble-minded children, and just outside the city limits is the state coloured normal school.

  • Private institutions for the care of the insane, idiots, feeble-minded and inebriates may be established, but must be licensed and regulated by the state board and become legally a part of the system of public charities.

  • The Missouri colony for the feeble-minded and epileptic (1899) is at Marshall.

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