Word Meanings - FAINTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Feeble; languid. Dryden.

FEEBLENESS
The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
FEEBLE
OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to 1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action
LANGUID
1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull. " Languid, powerless limbs. " Armstrong. Fire their languid souls with Cato's virtue. Addison. 2. Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion
FEEBLE-MINDED
Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. "comfort the feeble-minded." 1 Thess. v. 14. -- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n.
FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
ENFEEBLER
One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
ENFEEBLEMENT
The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
ENFEEBLE
To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott. Syn. -- To weaken; debilitate; enervate.
INFEEBLE
See ENFEEBLE