feeble
pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,839 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,823 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness also: lame a feeble excusea lame argument
- lacking strength or vigor also: faint damning with faint praisefaint resistance
- lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality also: decrepit, debile, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak a feeble old womanher body looked sapless
- lacking strength also: nerveless a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude
feeble in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I have spoken, but my word is feeble in comparison.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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He was a feeble man--the only weak man, it would appear, in the room.
The Velvet Glove · Henry Seton Merriman · Chapter 1
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All these events, which succeeded each other so rapidly, had broken the feeble springs of her soul.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Feeble women throw him down: Margaret crushes his head with her feet, and Juliana beats him with her chain.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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There was Esther an' Lois an' me, an' not a cent to live on, an' Esther she was beginnin' to be feeble.
Jane Field: A Novel · Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · Chapter 1