Dictionary Definition
feeble adj
1 pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness;
"a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument" [syn: lame]
2 lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint
praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"
[syn: faint]
3 lacking physical strength or vitality; "a
feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, infirm, sapless, weak, weakly]
4 lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool,
devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn:
nerveless]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iːbəl
Adjective
- Deficient in
physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
- Though she appeared old and feeble, she could still throw a ball.
- Wanting force,
vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
- That was a feeble excuse for an example.
Translations
deficient in physical strength
wanting force, vigor or efficiency in action or
expression
- Finnish: heikko, hatara
- German: dürftig
- Portuguese: fraco, debilitado
Derived terms
Verb
- To make feeble; to enfeeble.
References
Extensive Definition
Feeble may refer to:
- Feeble, one of the imaginary anthropomorphic characters of the 1989 film Meet the Feebles
- "Feeble", a song by Screaming Jets from their 1992 album Tear of Thought
- "Feeble", a song by Slick Shoes from their 1997 album Rusty
- Feeble, is Travis Barkers first band, with whom he went on tour with during high school.
- "Feeble Grind", a type of skateboarding trick.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abulic,
afraid, aged, ailing, anemic, anile, asthenic, backward, barely audible,
blear, bleared, bleary, bloodless, blurred, blurry, cachectic, chicken, confused, cowardly, crabbed, dark, debilitated, decrepit, decrescendo, delicate, dim, dim-witted, distant, dizzy, doddered, doddering, doddery, drained, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, exhausted, failing, faint, faint-voiced, fainthearted, faintish, feckless, feebleminded, filmy, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, floppy, foggy, forceless, fossilized, fragile, frail, fuzzy, gentle, gerontal, gerontic, gone, gutless, half-baked, half-heard,
half-seen, half-visible, half-witted, hazy, healthless, helpless, ill-defined, imbecile, imperceptible, impotent, impuissant, in poor health,
inadequate, inconclusive, inconspicuous, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable,
ineffective,
ineffectual,
infirm, insignificant, insubstantial, insufficient, invalid, invertebrate, lame, languid, languishing, languorous, limber, limp, listless, low, low-profile, lustless, marrowless, merely glimpsed,
misty, moribund, moronic, mossbacked, moth-eaten,
mummylike, murmured, namby-pamby, nerveless, obscure, out of focus, pale, palsied, paltry, papery-skinned, peaked, peaky, pianissimo, piano, pithless, pliable, pooped, poor, powerless, puny, ravaged with age, reduced, reduced in health,
rickety, rubbery, run to seed, run-down,
rusty, sapless, scarcely heard,
semivisible,
senile, shadowy, shaky, shoddy, shriveled, sickly, simpleminded, sinewless, slack, slight, slow, slow-witted, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced,
spineless, spiritless, strengthless, stricken in
years, subaudible,
subdued, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery, unavailing, uncertain, unclear, unconvincing, undefined, unhardened, unhealthy, unmanned, unnerved, unplain, unproved, unrecognizable, unrigorous, unsatisfactory, unsound, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsustained, vague, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded,
weak-voiced, weak-willed, weakened, weakly, wet, whispered, wishy-washy, with
low resistance, withered, wizened, woozy