Word Meanings - FEEBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion. "A lady's feeble voice." Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FEEBLE)

• Effeminate
• Feminine
• delicate
• womanly
• womanish
• timorous
• feeble
• mild mannered
• soft
• unmanly
• weak
• enervated
• emasculated
• Faint
• Weak
• languid
• fatigued
• unenergetic
• timid
• irresolute
• exhausted
• half-hearted
• obscure
• dim
• pale
• faded
• inconspicuous
• Impotent
• powerless
• useless
• helpless
• nerveless
• enfeebled
• Inane
• Empty
• pointless
• vapid
• characterless
• Incapable
• Unqualified
• unable
• incapable
• unfitted
• incompetent
• disqualified
• insufficient

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FEEBLE)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to FEEBLE)

• EMASCULATE
  1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld. 2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.
• FADAISE
  A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• FEMININE
  1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace. Macaulay. 2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex;
• NERVELESSNESS
  The state of being nerveless.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• ENFEEBLISH
  To enfeeble. Holland.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• EFFEMINATE
  1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• FADGE
  To fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley. (more info) unit, G. fügen, or AS. afægian to depict; all perh. form the same
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• OVERFATIGUE
  Excessive fatigue.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.