feeble

[Fee·ble]

You know how you feel when you can’t open a jar of pickles? And then grandma walks in and does it in one shot without even grunting? That’s called feeling feeble, or lacking strength.

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Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated.

Adjective S.
lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Adjective S.
lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

Adjective S.
lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

Adjective S.
pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"


superl.
Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.

superl.
Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.

v. t.
To make feble; to enfeeble.


Feeble

Fee"ble , a. [Compar. Feebler ; superl. Feeblest .] [OE. feble, OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to be wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. flere to weep. Cf. Foible.] 1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated.
Carried all the feeble of them upon asses.
2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion. "A lady's feeble voice." Shak.

Feeble

Fee"ble, v. t. To make feble; to enfeeble. [Obs.]
Shall that victorious hand be feebled here?

Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated.

To make feble; to enfeeble.

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Usage Examples

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

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