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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness;
- Example: "a feeble excuse"
- Example: "a lame argument"
[syn: feeble, lame]

2. lacking strength or vigor;
- Example: "damning with faint praise"
- Example: "faint resistance"
- Example: "feeble efforts"
- Example: "a feeble voice"
[syn: faint, feeble]

3. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality;
- Example: "a feeble old woman"
- Example: "her body looked sapless"
[syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly]

4. lacking strength;
- Example: "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
[syn: feeble, nerveless]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Feeble \Fee"ble\ (f[=e]"b'l), a. [Compar. Feebler (-bl[~e]r);
   superl. Feeblest (-bl[e^]st).] [OE. feble, OF. feble,
   flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to be
   wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. flere to weep. Cf.
   Foible.]
   1. Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
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            Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. --2
                                                  Chron. xxviii.
                                                  15.
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   2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or
      expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.;
      faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion. "A lady's feeble
      voice." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Feeble \Fee"ble\, v. t.
   To make feble; to enfeeble. [Obs.]
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         Shall that victorious hand be feebled here? --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

feeble
    adj 1: pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble
           excuse"; "a lame argument" [syn: feeble, lame]
    2: lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise";
       "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice" [syn:
       faint, feeble]
    3: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble
       old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit,
       debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak,
       weakly]
    4: lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy
       and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: feeble,
       nerveless]