feeble-minded

comparative more feeble-minded · comparative feebler-minded · superlative most feeble-minded · superlative 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

   Synonyms: irresolute, vacillating, imbecile