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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1. 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.

2. Butler:

   Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance.

3. Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940:

   Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.

4. Ted Nugent:

   To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

5. Henri Frdric Amiel:

   Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.