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feeble - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Adjective

feeble (comparative feebler, superlative feeblest)

• Deficient in physical strength.
  • ✤ Though she appeared old and feeble, she could still throw a ball.
  • ✤ Pent up in Utica he vainly forms
    A poor Epitome of Roman Greatneſs,
    And, cover’d with Numidian Guards, directs
    A feeble Army, and an empty Senate,
    Remnants of mighty Battels fought in vain.¹
  • ✤ You’ve had your time
    Gonna walk that line
    Like a living travesty,
    Endlessly bound to your sins
    I’ll hunt you down in time
    You’re just a feeble swine
    How can I compromise
    When all you do is deny²
  • ✤ France were transformed from the feeble, divided unit that had squeaked past Wales in the semi-final, their half-backs finding the corners with beautifully judged kicks from hand, the forwards making yards with every drive and a reorganised Kiwi line-out beginning to malfunction.³
• Lacking force, vigor, or effectiveness in action or expression; faint.
  • ✤ That was a feeble excuse for an example.

Verb

feeble (third-person singular simple present feebles, present participle feebling, simple past and past participle feebled)

• (obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.

Etymology

From Middle English feble, from Anglo-Norman feble (“weak, feeble”) (compare French faible), from Latin flēbilis (“tearful, mournful, lamentable”) by dissimilation, from fleō (“to weep, cry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ﹡bʰleh₁-. Doublet of foible.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfiːbəl/
• Audio (US): 🔊
• Rhymes: -iːbəl

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2: ↩

2. 2003, “Figure Number Five”, performed by Soilwork: ↩

3. 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

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