a. | 1. | Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; |
n. | 1. | One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind; - sometimes used as a pejorative term. |
2. | (Psychology) A person with a degree of mental retardation between that of an idiot and a moron; in a former classification of mentally retarded person, it applied to a person with an adult mental age of from four to eith years, and an I.Q. of from 26 to 50. | |
v. t. | 1. | To weaken; to make imbecile; |
Noun | 1. | imbecile - a person of subnormal intelligence |
Adj. | 1. | imbecile - having a mental age of three to seven years |