fee·ble

(fē′bəl)

adj. fee·bler, fee·blest

a. Lacking bodily strength; weak: too feeble to climb the hill.

b. Having little intensity or strength; faint: feeble light; a feeble voice.

2. Having little capacity to withstand pressure or strain: the castle's feeble defenses.

a. Lacking vigor or effectiveness; inadequate: a feeble attempt to apologize.

b. Showing little activity: a feeble housing market. See Synonyms at weak.

[Middle English feble, from Old French, from Latin flēbilis, lamentable, from flēre, to weep.]

fee′ble·ness n.

fee′bly adv.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	feebleness - the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) debility, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism unfitness, softness - poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury) asthenia, astheny - an abnormal loss of strength cachexia, cachexy, wasting - any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
	2.	feebleness - the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne tenuity weakness - the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; "his weakness increased as he became older"; "the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed"

feebleness

noun

The condition of being infirm or physically weak:

debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicateness, flimsiness, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, infirmity, insubstantiality, puniness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, weakliness, weakness.

Translations

debilidad

debolezza gracilità

feebleness

[ˈfiːblnɪs] N

1. (= weakness) [of person] → debilidad f

2. (= ineffectiveness) [of argument] → lo poco convincente, lo flojo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

feebleness

(= weakness, of person) → Schwäche f, → Schwächlichkeit f; (of light, voice) → Schwäche f

(pej: = pathetic nature) → Kläglichkeit f; (of person, effort, applause, support) → Schwäche f; (of excuse) → Faulheit f (inf); (of joke) → Lahmheit f (inf); (of response) → Halbherzigkeit f; the feebleness of his argument → sein wenig überzeugendes Argument

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

feebleness

[ˈfiːblnɪs] n → debolezza