Synonyms for feeble
ˈfi bəlfee·ble

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1. feebleadjective

   Synonyms:
   infirm, weak, debilitated

2. feebleadjective

   Synonyms:
   faint

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1. feeble

   Faint, with the general sense of lacking strength or effectiveness, covers a wide range of meaning, signifying overcome with physical weakness or exhaustion, or lacking in purpose, courage, or energy, as said of persons; or lacking definiteness or distinctness of color or sound, as said of written characters, voices, or musical notes. A person may be faint when physically wearied, or when overcome with fear; he may be a faint adherent because naturally feeble or purposeless, or because half-hearted in the cause; he may be a faltering supporter because naturally irresolute or because faint-hearted and timid in view of perils that threaten, a listless worker, through want of mental energy and purpose. Written characters may be faint or dim, either because originally written with poor ink, or because they have become faded by time and exposure.

   Synonyms:
   dim, exhausted, faded, faint, faint-hearted, faltering, fatigued, half-hearted, ill-defined, indistinct, irresolute, languid, listless, purposeless, timid, weak, wearied, worn, worn down, worn out

   Antonyms:
   bright, brilliant, clear, conspicuous, daring, energetic, fresh, hearty, resolute, strong, sturdy, vigorous

   Preposition:
   Faint with hunger; faint in color.

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1. feeble

   Synonyms:
   wretched, weak, poor, frail, debilitated, dull, forceless, puny, nerveless, enfeebled, enervated, faint, infirm, incomplete, vain, fruitless, scanty, pitiable

   Antonyms:
   strong, robust, active, effective, successful, abundant

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1. feeble, lameadjective

   pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness

   "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

   Synonyms:
   rickety, faint, debile, halt, nerveless, lame, sapless, halting, crippled, weakly, gimpy, infirm, decrepit, game, weak

   Antonyms:
   strong, powerful, robust

2. faint, feebleadjective

   lacking strength or vigor

   "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

   Synonyms:
   weak, infirm, dim, weakly, swooning, rickety, lame, debile, nerveless, vague, faint-hearted, fainthearted, light-headed, timid, faint, lightheaded, decrepit, wispy, light, shadowy, sapless

   Antonyms:
   robust, strong, powerful

3. decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weaklyadjective

   lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

   "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

   Synonyms:
   weak, watery, infirm, unaccented, washy, shaky, weakly, debile, rickety, woebegone, lame, rachitic, nerveless, run-down, wonky, imperfect, creaky, faint, frail, decrepit, light, fallible, flea-bitten, wobbly, derelict, sapless

   Antonyms:
   powerful, strong, robust

4. feeble, nervelessadjective

   lacking strength

   "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

   Synonyms:
   cool, rickety, faint, debile, nerveless, lame, sapless, weakly, infirm, decrepit, weak, coolheaded

   Antonyms:
   powerful, robust, strong

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1. feebleadjective

   Synonyms:
   weak, not strong

2. feebleadjective

   Synonyms:
   debilitated, enervated, sickly, infirm, languishing, languid, drooping, frail

3. feebleadjective

   Synonyms:
   faint, imperfect, not vigorous, not lively

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1. feebleadjective

   Synonyms:
   infirm, doddering, weak

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1. List of paraphrases for "feeble":

   weak, unconvincing, flimsy

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How to use feeble in a sentence?

1. Jesse Jackson Sr.:

   In sickness and death her body was frail, but her spirit and good works were never feeble, her flame of hope, freedom and justice will forever burn.

2. Hannah More:

   One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

3. Hannah More:

   One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

4. Horace Bushnell:

   If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

5. James Joyce:

   Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.