mentally defectiveadjective
uk/ˌmen.təl.i dɪˈfek.tɪv/us/ˌmen.t̬əl.i dɪˈfek.tɪv/old-fashioned or offensiveIf you say that someone is mentally defective, you mean that they have low mental abilities because their brain is damaged due to an accident or illness, or has been damaged since birth.
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Mental & psychiatric disorders
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- adjustment disorder
- age-associated memory impairment
- anhedonia
- anorexia nervosa
- dementia
- eating disorder
- learning difficulties
- male menopause
- melancholia
- neurotic
- paranoia
- PTSD
- sad
- schizophrenia
- schizophrenic
- seasonal affective disorder
- Sen
- Stockholm syndrome
- visual variant of Alzheimer's disease
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