feebleminded如何读

英:['fi:bl'maɪndɪd]

美:['fibəlˌmaɪndɪd]

feebleminded是什么意思

  • adj.

    无决断力的;精神薄弱的;低能的;意志薄弱的

  • feebleminded英英释义

    adjective

    dated, offensive impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disabilityNote: This meaning of the word feebleminded, which is associated especially with eugenics practices of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is no longer used in medical, educational, and regulatory contexts and is considered offensive.

    foolish, stupid … circled by blowhards too feeble-minded to understand their own racism.—Eamon Lynch

    … sexist stereotypes painting women as too feeble-minded and gullible to be the proper stewards of their own lives.—Salon.com

    obsolete irresolute, vacillating

    feebleminded词源英文解释

    The first known use of feebleminded was circa 1525

    feebleminded儿童词典英英释义

    feignverb

    to give a false appearance of : fake

    feign illness

    to state as if true

    feign an excuse

    feetfirstadverb

    with both feet or all four feet going first

    fell feetfirst

    feeblemindedadjective

    not having normal intelligence : mentally deficient

    feebleminded 例句

    1 “In her paperwork, she was labeled as being feebleminded,” said Jefferson’s stepdaughter, Pauline Watson.

    2 Next, the rapid increase of the feebleminded, of criminal types and of the pathetic victims of toil in the child-labor factories.

    3 In the simpler assembling operations the jobs are so subdivided that any man who is not actually feebleminded can learn the work in a few days.

    4 Because of a group of feebleminded extremists, we have all been stigmatized.

    5 These procedures targeted Black, Indigenous and Latina women, along with those labeled “feebleminded.”

    6 In the hospital here I had for years the honor to serve under a chief who, long fossilized, was for decades notoriously feebleminded, and was yet permitted to continue in his responsible office.

    7 She found that an overwhelming proportion of the classified feebleminded children in New York schools came from large families living in overcrowded slum conditions, and that only a small percentage were born of native parents.

    8 That, Dovey Johnson Roundtree knew, could have immense significance for her client, a feebleminded day laborer accused of one of the most sensational murders of the mid-20th century.

    9 In 1934, when Ann was 20, her mother had her declared feebleminded, and she was sterilized without her consent or knowledge.

    10 He did not come within the limits of the feebleminded group.

    11 Instead, she was at a sprawling 75-year-old institution founded for “feebleminded” children that the U.S.

    12 Bell, which permitted the sterilization of Carrie Bell, a young woman deemed "feebleminded" by her adoptive family and, eventually, the Supreme Court.

    13 What Murphy studies could overwhelm the impatient and feebleminded.

    14 Apparently, the administration thinks parents are too feebleminded to parse that different vaccines with different dosages might have different levels of efficacy or require a different number of shots.

    15 The distribution of human intelligence across any representative population is bell-shaped, with the feebleminded at one end and the geniuses at the other.

    16 To begin: Ms. Buck was neither epileptic nor feebleminded.

    17 “I knew her, and she wasn’t feebleminded or insane.”

    18 At one point in “The Tunnel,” Zvi’s son, a tech entrepreneur, says: “People with dementia are not feebleminded. Their spirit is exhausted.”

    19 He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy though not feebleminded in the medical sense.

    20 From these same elements, living under these same conditions come the feebleminded and other defectives.

    feebleminded 同义词

    3 意志薄弱的

    weak-headed mental weak weak-willed

    7 智能不足

    intellectual disability

    11 智障

    imbecile imbecility

    13 智障的

    imbecile

    15 智能障碍

    mental retardation

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