feeble-witted
1feeble-minded — adj feeble, Inf. weak in the head, weak minded, deficient, subnormal, retarded, slow; slow witted, dull, dull witted, stupid, Inf. dumb, foolish; empty headed, blank, vacant, vacuous, Sl. having nobody home, Sl. empty upstairs. See foolish(def3) …
2feeble — Synonyms and related words: abulic, afraid, aged, ailing, anemic, anile, asthenic, backward, barely audible, blear, bleared, bleary, bloodless, blurred, blurry, cachectic, chicken, confused, cowardly, crabbed, dark, debilitated, decrepit,… …
3feeble-minded — Synonyms and related words: boneheaded, deficient, dim witted, dull witted, dumb, empty headed, exceptional, idiotic, imbecilic, mentally defective, moronic, retarded, simple, slow witted, stupid, subnormal, thick, vacant, weak minded, witless …
4feeble-minded — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. retarded, simple minded, foolish, senile; see dull 3 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Offensive. Having only a limited ability to learn and understand: backward, dull, simple, simple minded, slow, slow witted.… …
5feeble-minded — dim witted, slow, stupid, mentally deficient …
6half-witted — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unintelligent, foolish, feeble minded, moronic; mentally retarded. See ignorance. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. moronic, imbecilic, mentally deficient; see ignorant 2 , stupid 1 . III (Roget s… …
7short-witted — a. Unintelligent, shallow, stupid, dull, stolid, foolish, doltish, simple; weak headed, weak minded, feeble minded, half witted, shallow brained, dull witted, blunt witted …
8half-witted — a. Dull, stupid, stolid, doltish, foolish, soft, silly, shallow, sappy, weak headed, weak minded, feeble minded, shallow brained, blunt witted, dull witted, thick skulled …
9half-witted — adj 1. feeble minded, simple, witless, stolid, cretinous, doltish, Inf. weak in the upper story. See feeble minded 2. foolish, stupid, nitwitted, Sl. nutty, Sl. balmy, Sl. batty, Sl. loony …
10half-witted — half wittedly, adv. half wittedness, n. /haf wit id, hahf /, adj. 1. feeble minded. 2. foolish; stupid. [1635 45] * * * …
