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. Orison Swett Marden:

   The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

2. Marquis de Sade, Justine:

   Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...

3. Purdue University:

   The signal that they see is really kind of feeble, there’s something there, maybe. Whether it has to do with the impact is more questionable.

4. William Shakespeare:

   It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.

5. Queen Victoria:

   The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.