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. do-gooder
  6. imbecile
  7. mentally-retarded

Feeble-minded Sentence Examples

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

  • 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.

  • The institutions under its charge include a Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Davenport; a Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown; a College for the Blind at Vinton; a School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs; an Institution for Feeble-minded Children at Glenwood; an Industrial School for Boys at Eldora; an Industrial School for Girls at Mitchellville; and, at Oakdale, a Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis.

  • Charitable Institutions, &c. - The state maintains a school for the blind at Gary, a school for deaf mutes at Sioux Falls, a tuberculosis sanatorium at Custer, a general hospital for the insane at Yankton, a school for the feeble-minded at Redfield, a soldiers' home at Hot Springs, a reform school at Plankinton, and a penitentiary at Sioux Falls.

  • The state supports a hospital for the insane at Jamestown, an institution for the feeble-minded at Grafton, a home for old soldiers at Lisbon, a blind asylum at Bathgate, a reform school (opened 1902) at Mandan and a penitentiary at Bismarck.

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