feeble
physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail.
weak intellectually or morally: a feeble mind.
lacking in volume, loudness, brightness, distinctness, etc.: a feeble voice; feeble light.
lacking in force, strength, or effectiveness: feeble resistance; feeble arguments.
Origin of feeble
1synonym study For feeble
Other words from feeble
- fee·ble·ness, noun
- feeblish, adjective
- feebly, adverb
- non·fee·ble, adjective
- non·fee·ble·ness, noun
- non·fee·b·ly, adverb
- un·fee·ble, adjective
- un·fee·ble·ness, noun
- un·fee·b·ly, adverb
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How to use feeble in a sentence
Very little is written about adult male feebleness when it comes to forging new friendships.
Dad Desperately Seeks Friends to Share Midlife | Karl Taro Greenfeld | June 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn fact, some memories are much oftener weak from deficiency in reviving power than from feebleness of first impressions.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)Would it be cruel to cut off children from the privileges of civil society because of their feebleness?
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamThe principal ground on which wills are attacked is feebleness of mind, lack of mental capacity.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesIn speaking on this subject, he felt the utter feebleness of human language.
Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot | William Gannaway Brownlow
She sat down and could not speak—the room whirled round and round—her white feebleness touched Mrs Morgan's heart.
Ruth | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
British Dictionary definitions for feeble
/ (ˈfiːbəl) /
lacking in physical or mental strength; frail; weak
inadequate; unconvincing: feeble excuses
easily influenced or indecisive
Origin of feeble
1Derived forms of feeble
- feebleness, noun
- feebly, adverb
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