Definitions for feeble
ˈfi bəlfee·ble

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. feeble, lameadjective

   pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness

   "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

2. faint, feebleadjective

   lacking strength or vigor

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

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

   lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

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

4. feeble, nervelessadjective

   lacking strength

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

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. feebleverb

   To make feeble; to enfeeble.

2. feebleadjective

   Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.

   Though she appeared old and feeble, she could still throw a ball.

3. feebleadjective

   Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.

   That was a feeble excuse for an example.

4. Etymology: From feble, from feble, from flebilis, from flere, akin to fluere; see fluent.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Feeble

   deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated

2. Feeble

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

3. Feebleverb

   to make feble; to enfeeble

4. Etymology: [OE. feble, OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to be wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. flere to weep. Cf. Foible.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Feeble

   fē′bl, adj. weak: wanting in strength of body, energy, or efficiency: showing weakness or incapacity: faint: dull.—adj. Fee′ble-mind′ed, weak-minded: irresolute.—n. Fee′bleness—(Spens.) Fe′blesse.—adv. Fee′bly. [O. Fr. foible, for floible—L. flebilis, lamentable, from flēre, to weep.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of feeble in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of feeble in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of feeble in a Sentence

1. 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.

2. Sigmund Freud:

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

3. RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo):

   The weak and feeble-minded are drawn to the evil strongman as it provides them a sense of power they could not otherwise achieve.

4. Charles Haddon Spurgeon:

   Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

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.

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