The word "feebleminded" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an old-fashioned term used to refer to someone who has mental disabilities. Example: Despite the efforts of the special education teachers, the feebleminded student was still struggling to understand the lesson.
If belief in God stems from intellectual inadequacy, then all believers are feebleminded – and the most devout are the most feebleminded of all.
WHEN Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, he oversaw the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a man so feebleminded that he said he would save the pecan pie from his last meal "for later".
For the sake of legitimacy and despite general apprehensions, he gave Francis the disastrous advice to recognize his feebleminded eldest son, the archduke Ferdinand, as heir to the throne.
Being both physically weak and feebleminded, however, he took no part in government affairs, which were dominated by his wife's brother, Boris Godunov.
When Fyodor died childless in 1682, a fierce struggle for power ensued between the Miloslavskys and the Naryshkins: the former wanted to put Fyodor's brother, the delicate and feebleminded Ivan V, on the throne; the Naryshkins stood for the healthy and intelligent Peter.
Virginia is saying sorry, sort of, to the thousands who were sterilised by the state over several decades in the last century because they were deemed "feebleminded" or otherwise unworthy of the white race.
Many were committed to the wards of the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded in Lynchburg.
When he says, "I gotta' play nursemaid to a bunch a' feebleminded women down here in civilization who can't take care a' themselves," Meg replies, "Why don't you just go off and live the way you want to live.
Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), the ace local police detective, arrests a feebleminded, apparently hapless young man (Paul Dano) as a suspect but releases him after a couple of days — he doesn't have enough evidence to hold him.
In 1927, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of sterilizing a twenty-one-year-old woman thought to be "feebleminded," and Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote for the majority, "It is better for all the world, if... society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind".
"You're not feebleminded, are you?" he would demand.
