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feeble 音标拼音: [f'ibəl] a. 微弱的,衰弱的,无效的 微弱的,衰弱的,无效的 feeble adj 1: pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; " a feeble excuse"; " a lame argument" [ synonym: { feeble}, { lame}] 2: lacking strength or vigor; " damning with faint praise"; " faint resistance"; " feeble efforts"; " a feeble voice" [ synonym: { faint}, { feeble}] 3: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; " a feeble old woman"; " her body looked sapless" [ synonym: { decrepit}, { debile}, { feeble}, { infirm}, { rickety}, { sapless}, { weak}, { weakly}] 4: lacking strength; " a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [ synonym: { feeble}, { nerveless}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. -- 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Feeble \ Fee" ble\, v. t. To make feble; to enfeeble. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Shall that victorious hand be feebled here? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 201 Moby Thesaurus words for " feeble": abulic, afraid, aged, ailing, anemic, anile, asthenic, backward, barely audible, blear, bleared, bleary, bloodless, blurred, blurry, cachectic, chicken, confused, cowardly, crabbed, dark, debilitated, decrepit, decrescendo, delicate, dim, dim- witted, distant, dizzy, doddered, doddering, doddery, drained, drooping, droopy, dull, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, exhausted, failing, faint, faint- voiced, fainthearted, faintish, feckless, feebleminded, filmy, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, floppy, foggy, forceless, fossilized, fragile, frail, fuzzy, gentle, gerontal, gerontic, gone, gutless, half- baked, half- heard, half- seen, half- visible, half- witted, hazy, healthless, helpless, ill- defined, imbecile, imperceptible, impotent, impuissant, in poor health, inadequate, inconclusive, inconspicuous, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, ineffective, ineffectual, infirm, insignificant, insubstantial, insufficient, invalid, invertebrate, lame, languid, languishing, languorous, limber, limp, listless, low, low- profile, lustless, marrowless, merely glimpsed, misty, moribund, moronic, mossbacked, moth- eaten, mummylike, murmured, namby- pamby, nerveless, obscure, out of focus, pale, palsied, paltry, papery- skinned, peaked, peaky, pianissimo, piano, pithless, pliable, pooped, poor, powerless, puny, ravaged with age, reduced, reduced in health, rickety, rubbery, run to seed, run- down, rusty, sapless, scarcely heard, semivisible, senile, shadowy, shaky, shoddy, shriveled, sickly, simpleminded, sinewless, slack, slight, slow, slow- witted, soft, soft- sounding, soft- voiced, spineless, spiritless, strengthless, stricken in years, subaudible, subdued, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery, unavailing, uncertain, unclear, unconvincing, undefined, unhardened, unhealthy, unmanned, unnerved, unplain, unproved, unrecognizable, unrigorous, unsatisfactory, unsound, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsustained, vague, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak, weak- kneed, weak- minded, weak- voiced, weak- willed, weakened, weakly, wet, whispered, wishy- washy, with low resistance, withered, wizened, woozy
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