Feeble

Definitions: Feeble

Feeble

Adjective

1. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument".

2. Lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice".

3. Lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless".

4. Lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Date "feeble" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of being feeble, denotes unhealthy occupation and mental worry. Seek to make a change for yourself after this dream. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Feeble Most forcible Feeble. A writer whose language is very "loud," but whose ideas are very jejune. Feeble is a "woman's tailor," brought to Sir John Falstaff as a recruit. He tells Sir John "he will do his good will," and the knight replies, "Well said, courageous Feeble! Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove, or most magnanimous mouse ... most forcible Feeble." (Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV., iii. 2.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Feeble

Synonyms: decrepit (adj), faint (adj), infirm (adj), lame (adj), nerveless (adj), sapless (adj), weak (adj), weakly (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: feeblest (medicine).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Feebleness	Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.
Reasoning,	Weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague.
Weakness	Adjective: weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved; Verb: sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I have the body of a weak and feeble man. (Oliver's Travels; writing credit: Alan Plater) That has a bearing on the case, hasn't it? He's been hurt, he's been hurt by everybody he met since he came here, principally by me. He's been the victim of every conniving crook in town. The newspapers pounced on him, made him a target for their feeble humor. (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side! (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan) What's on your feeble mind Duane? (The Last Picture Show; writing credit: Peter Bogdanovich; Larry McMurtry) I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman. (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)
Movie/TV Titles	The Feeble Files (1997)
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Domain	Title
Books	Almosts: A Study of the Feeble Minded (reference) America's Feeble Weapon: Funding the Marshall Plan in France and Italy, 1948-1950 (Contributions to the Study of World History, No. 46) (reference) Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (reference) Minds Made Feeble (reference) The Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Lateer Victorian and Edwardian England (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Advice to the mentally feeble -- keep out of politics.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Edmund Burke	Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth I	I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England, too.
Jean Jacques Rousseau	A feeble body weakens the mind.
Samuel Johnson	Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Senator Morris Sheppard	A nation that can not preserve itself ought to die, and it will die -- die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow.
William Shakespeare	'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Wonderful and terrible trial, from which the feeble come out infamous, from which the strong come out sublime.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	A feeble creature like a monkey was there, drawn thither by the sound of voices at the fire.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The feeble headlight jiggled over the way, and the right headlight blinked on and off from a bad connection.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Japan	The Japanese sporting goods market continued to shrink in 2000 because of the feeble economy. (references)
	Bangladesh	The extravagant use of credit markets by the government is, in turn, crowding out private credit, demand for which is feeble in the first place due to slow industrial activity and greater scrutiny of loans by banks. (references)
	Bangladesh	The country's post-flood industrial recovery occurred without much participation by the manufacturing sector, which grew at a feeble 2.0% in FY1999, but has since grown to be the back bone of the industrial sector with a 9.1% growth rate in FY2001. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded. An example of this faulty exposition is found in the only extant sermon of the pious Bishop Rowley, a characteristic passage from which is here given: "Now righteousness consisteth not merely in a holy state of mind, nor yet in performance of religious rites and obedience to the letter of the law. It is not enough that one be pious and just: one must see to it that others also are in the same state; and to this end compulsion is a proper means. Forasmuch as my injustice may work ill to another, so by his injustice may evil be wrought upon still another, the which it is as manifestly my duty to estop as to forestall mine own tort. Wherefore if I would be righteous I am bound to restrain my neighbor, by force if needful, in all those injurious enterprises from which, through a better disposition and by the help of Heaven, I do myself restrain."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	Then one day, the clone comes to term and bursts out of its host mother, a deformed, multi-headed freak screeching the inhuman howls of the undead and bloodying your ankle with a gnarled claw in protest for your feeble attempts to play God.
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"Feeble" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Feeble" is used about 442 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	442	13,088

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "feeble".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Eker	N/A	Biblical	Feeble
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "feeble": become feeble ♦ feeble effort ♦ feeble minded ♦ grow feeble. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "feeble": feeble-looking, Feeble-minded, feeble-mindedness, feeble-sounding.
	Ending with "feeble": Forcible-feeble, non-feeble.
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Language		Translations for "feeble"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pafuqishëm (emasculate, infirm, peaky, weak), i pafuqi (impotent, nerveless, null, powerless, weak), i mekur (faint, languorous), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), gjysmënjeri. (various references)

Arabic		‏واهن (atonal, atonic, crazy, doddery, effete, enervate, flagging, impotent, infirm, invalidity, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lower, nerveless, powerless, prostrate, rusty, shrivelled, sickly, sluggish, spiritless, stunted, tender, weak, weakling, weakly, wimp), ‏غير فعال (feckless, inactive, ineffectual, inefficient, inert, inoperative, passive), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy). (various references)

Bulgarian		слабоват (dismal, pimping), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), хилав (effete, frail, puny, sickly, weakly). (various references)

Chinese		衰弱 (weak). (various references)

Czech		slabý (bad, decrepit, delicate, faint, fainting, fragile, frail, light, low, slack, tenuous, wan, watery, weak, weakly, weak-minded, weary). (various references)

Danish		svagelig (decrepit, infirm, weak), sinke (feebleminded, weak), debil (feebleminded, weak). (various references)

Dutch		zwakzinnig (feeble minded, feebleminded, mentally deficient, weak), zwak door ouderdom (decrepit, infirm, weak), decrepitus (decrepit, infirm, weak), debiel (feeble minded, feebleminded, moderate mental deficiency, moron, subnormal, weak), afgeleefd (decrepit, infirm, weak). (various references)

Finnish		voimaton (lacking strength, powerless, without strength), vaisu (dull, faint), ponneton (lame), heikko (delicate, faint, frail, infirm, poor, slight, weak). (various references)

French		débile (feebleminded). (various references)

German		schwach (brittle, dim, dimly, docile, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feebly, flimsily, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, infirm, infirmly, lame, languid, light, low, obscurely, poor, sinewed, slack, slender, slight, slightly, soft, thinly, uncertain, unsound, weak, weakly, wishy washy), kraftlos (anodyne, effete, impotent, infirm, invalid, lank, limp, nerveless, nervelessly, powerless, powerlessly, vapid, weak). (various references)

Greek		ασθενικόσ (sickly, weakly), ασθενής (feebleminded, ill, patient, sick person, weak), αδύνατοσ (flimsy, frail, impossible, impotent, languishing, languorous, puny, sappy, sinewless, sleazy, slender, slimsy, softy, strengthless, thin, underdog, underfed, wan, washy, weak), αδύνατος (feebleminded, puny, thin, weak). (various references)

Hebrew		מותש (spent, weakened, worn out), חלוש (effete, exhausted, frail, infirm, soft, weakly), חלש (faint, flaccid, frail, run down, slight, weak), אומלל (disconsolate, hapless, miserable, poor, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched), רפ�" (flabby, flaccid, languid, lax, limp, limping, loose, slack, soft, weak). (various references)

Hungarian		gyenge (anaemic, anemic, crazy, decrepit, Dickey, dicky, dim, extenuate, faint, feckless, flabby, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, inferior, infirm, light, low, meagre, mild, nerveless, palsied, reedy, scrannel, semi-invalid, sickly, slack, slender, slight, small voice, soft, weak, weakly). (various references)

Indonesian		uzur (sickly, weak). (various references)

Italian		debole (dim, failing, faint, feebleminded, flimsy, frail, gone, helpless, impotent, infirm, light, nerveless, pale, powerless, strengthless, tenuous, thin, unsound, weak, weak point, weakly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		絶え絶え (faint), 力無い , 力ない , 微弱 (faint, weak), か弱い (be dejected, body trembling, calculating, chattering, Cheer up!, chipping, clash, clatter, crash, dry or rough feeling, feel disappointed, feel emotionally drained, feel let down, firmly, frail, frozen solid, heartbroken, lose heart, overly serious, peanut brittle, rattle, rummage, rustling, shrewd, slam, solidly, solidly built, something come loose, tick-tock, tightly, tough, with a bang, with a clank). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たえ� え (faint), びじゃく (faint, weak), かよわい (frail), ちからない. (various references)

Korean		미약한. (various references)

Manx		treih (abject, deplorable, doughy, drawn, forlorn, fragile, haggard, miserable, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, sallow, seedy, sickly, wan, wretched, wretched of thing), moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deliberate, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poor, poorly, scraggy, slack, slow, sorry, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing), lhag (baggy, dent, depressed, dim, easy fitting, faltering, flaccid, flagging, frail in health, ineffective), gyn vree (expressionless, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, inexpressive, inoperative, invalid, lethargic, sapless, torpid, vigourless, void), faase (weak), annoon (frail, impotent, understrength, weak from birth), anlheiltagh (disabled, disabling, imbecile). (various references)

Norwegian		svak (dim, faint, frail). (various references)

Pig Latin		eeblefay

Portuguese		débil (broken, enervate, failure, faint, feebleminded, fragile, frail, infirm, languid, light, pony, puny, reckling, reedy, remote, scrannel, shaky, sickly, spiritless, weak, weakly). (various references)

Romanian		firav (delicate, frail, infirm, puny, slender, weak), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), plãpând (delicate, dicky, dull, frail, infirm, puny, slight, tender, weak), neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, foggy, gloomily, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, lax, muddy, obscurely, vague, vaguely), lânced (weak, withered), inferior (base, below the mark, bottom, coarse, inferior, less, lesser, lower, mean, Nether, penny-a-line, second, subordinate, under), debil (delicate, frail, lymphatic, sickly, weakly), şubred (delicate, disorderly, flimsy, frail, insecure, ramshackle, rocky, shaky, unstable, weak), anemic (anaemic, debile, faintly, weak), anemiat (anaemic, enfeebled). (various references)

Russian		слабый (characterless, cold, cranky, delicate, dicky, dim, effeminate, enervate, faint, faint sound, faintish, fragile, frail, knock kneed, languishing, lax, limp, loosely-coupled, mild, nerveless, pale, pimping, reckling, remiss, slack, slight, soft, tender, unbacked, weak, weakly, wishy washy), невыразительный (expressionless, featureless, inexpressive, null, toneless, unexpressive, unimpressive, wishy-washy), бледный (ashy, ashy-gray, chalky, colorless, colourless, grey, light, lurid, mealy, pale, pallid, paly, sallow, wan, washy, whey-faced, wishy-washy). (various references)

Scottish		meat, meata, lapach (benumbed, faltering, impotent), lag (a hollow, dell, faint, hollow, weak), breòite (frail), anfhann (weak). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, remote, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), oronuo (decrepit, flimsy, lapsed, ramshackle), nemoćan (feckless, infirm, powerless, sick, unable, weak). (various references)

Spanish		débil (bad, dud, faint, feebleminded, flimsy, ill, infirm, lame duck, light, thin, weak). (various references)

Swedish		svag (faint, feckless, flimsy, fragile, frail, gone, impuissant, infirm, insubstantial, lame, light, low, mild, milk and water, off, reckling, rickety, shaky, shallow, small, subtle, tenuous, unsound, weak, weak-kneed, weakly), matt (depressed, dim, dull, dusty, faint, faintly, flat, frosted, jaded, lacklustre, languid, lustreless, mat, matt, tame, weak, wishy washy), klen (cachectic, delicate, faint, frail, infirm, light, low, poorly, scrubby, slight, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak). (various references)

Thai		อ่อนกำลัง (faint). (various references)

Turkish		zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feint, flaccid, flagging, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, slim, small, spare, spent, thin, unmanly, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), kuvvetsiz (atonic, sinewless, strengthless, washy, weak), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), hafif (airy, blancmange, cushy, digestible, distant, dulcet, easy of digestion, feint, frail, frivolous, lenient, light, lightly, lightweight, loose, mild, piano, slight, small, soft, subdued, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, wishy washy), güçsüz (crank, doughy, flabby, helpless, impotent, ineffectual, powerless, sapless, shaky, sinewless, strengthless, weak), eli ayağı tutmayan (age-worn, crippled, doddering, doddery, stricken), cılız (fatless, of poor physique, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, sickly, skinny, spindling, spindly, undersized, weak), çelimsiz (frail, weedy), çürük (bad, bruise, carious, cavity, contusion, decay, decayed, dicky, draft-exempt, dry rot, flimsy, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rickety, rocky, rotten, sleazy, tooth decay, unsound, wonky). (various references)

Turkmen		ejiz (small boned, weak). (various references)

Ukranian		слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, flagging, languishing, lax, limp, nerveless, one horse, pale, queasy, slack, tender, tenuous, weak, weakly), кволий (ailing, bedrid, crocky, dicky, fey, languid, nerveless, powerless, puny, ramshackle, silly, spindly, washy, weakly), мізерний (bare, beggarly, insignificant, miserable, naught, nominal, outside, paltry, pitiable, pokey, poky). (various references)

Vietnamese		yếu đuối kém, yếu (mild, strengthless, weak, weakly), nhu nhược lờ mờ, mỏng mảnh (pasteboard, slight, slightly), dễ gãy (brash, brittle, frangible). (various references)

Welsh		tila (insignificant, puny), nychlyd (sickly), musgrell (decrepit), llibin (awkward, clumsy, limp), llesg (faint, languid, sluggish), llegach (decrepit, inform, weak), gwantan (fickle, poor, unsteady), eiddil (slender), egwan (weak), diwryg (anemic), cwla (poorly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	consenesco, decrepiti, flebilis, fragilis, frigidus, infirma, infirmam, infirmes, infirmi, infirmior, infirmiora, infirmiori, infirmis, infirmo, infirmos, infirmum, infirmus, phesse, tenues, tenui, tenuis, tenuissimum, tenuitatem. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	foible. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Romans Chapter 15, Verse 1
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ofeilomen de hmeiV oi dunatoi ta asqenhmata twn adunatwn bastazein kai mh eautoiV areskein
Latin	405	Vulgate	Debemus autem nos firmiores inbecillitates infirmorum sustinere et non nobis placere
Old English	990	West Saxon	We þe sind trume sceoldon þæra untrumena swicungas geþolian and we ne sculon us gecweman.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	But we saddere men owen to susteyne the feblenesses of sijke men, and not plese to vs silf.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	We which are stronge ought to beare the fraylnes of them which are weake and not to stonde in oure awne cosaytes.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Romans Chapter 15, Verse 1
Cebuano	¶ Kinahanglan natong mga malig-on ang pagyayong sa mga kaluya sa mga mahuyang, ug dili ang pagpahimuot sa atong kaugalingon.
Croatian	Mi jaki treba da nosimo slabosti slabih, a ne da sebi ugaðamo.
Danish	Men vi, som ere stærke, bør bære de svages Skrøbeligheder og ikke være os selv til Behag.
Dutch	Maar wij, die sterk zijn, zijn schuldig de zwakheden der onsterken te dragen, en niet onszelven te behagen.
Finnish	Mutta meidän, vahvojen, tulee kantaa heikkojen vajavaisuuksia, eikä elää itsellemme mieliksi.
French	Nous qui sommes forts, nous devons supporter les faiblesses de ceux qui ne le sont pas, et ne pas nous complaire en nous-mêmes.
German	Wir aber, die wir stark sind, sollen der Schwachen Gebrechlichkeit tragen und nicht gefallen an uns selber haben.
Hungarian	Tartozunk pedig mi az erõsek, hogy az erõtelenek erõtlenségeit hordozzuk, és ne magunknak kedveskedjünk.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Kita yang sungguh-sungguh yakin akan apa yang kita percayai, haruslah bersabar terhadap keberatan-keberatan orang yang lemah keyakinannya. Janganlah kita mau menyenangkan diri kita sendiri saja.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka wajiblah kita yang kuat ini menanggung kelemahan orang yang lemah, dan jangan kita menyukakan diri kita sendiri.
Italian	Noi che siamo i forti abbiamo il dovere di sopportare l'infermit� dei deboli, senza compiacere noi stessi.
Latvian	Mums, stiprajiem, jâcieð vâjo trûkumi, un mçs nedrîkstam sev izpatikt.
Maori	¶ Ko te mahi tika ma tatou, ma te hunga kaha, he pikau i nga ngoikoretanga o te hunga kahakore; kaua hoki e whai i ta tatou ake i ahuareka ia.
Norwegian	Vi som er sterke, er skyldige til å bære de svakes skrøpeligheter og ikke være oss selv til behag;
Rumanian	Noi, cari skntem tari, skntem datori sq rqbdqm slqbiciunile celor slabi, wi sq nu ne plqcem nouq knwine.
Russian	нЩ, УЙМШОЩЕ, �"ПМЦОЩ УОПУЙФШ ОЕНПЭЙ �'ЕУУЙМШОЩИ Й ОЕ УЕ�'Е ХЗПЦ�"БФШ.
Shuar	¶ Yusjai katsuaru ájinia nu iik Enentáimtumatsuk kakarmachu ainia nu Yáintiniaitji.
Spanish	Así que, los que somos más fuertes debemos sobrellevar las flaquezas de los débiles y no agradarnos a nosotros mismos.
Swahili	Sisi tulio imara katika imani tunapaswa kuwasaidia wale walio dhaifu wayakabili matatizo yao. Tusijipendelee sisi wenyewe tu.
Swedish	Paulus förmanar till saktmod och endräkt, talar om ändamålet med sitt brev och om sin apostoliska kallelse, redogör för sina tillämnade resor, beder om församlingens förbön.
Uma	¶ Kita' to moroho pepangala' -ta hi Alata'ala kana mosabara hi kamorara' nono doo-ta to ko'ia moroho pepangala' -ra. Neo' -ta mpali' kagoea' -ta moto-wadi.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "feeble": feebleminded, feeblemindedly, feeblemindedness, feeblemindednesses, feebleness, feeblenesses, feebler, feeblest. (additional references)
	Words ending with "feeble": enfeeble. (additional references)
	Words containing "feeble": enfeebled, enfeeblement, enfeeblements, enfeebles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Feeble" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beeble, Debele, faleble, feable, febble, febe, febile, febille, feble, feeable, feebee, feegle, feelbe, feile, Fielke, forble, freyle, kebele. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "feeble" (pronounced fē"bul)
5	f ē" b u l	enfeeble.
3	-b u l	able, abominable, acceptable, accessible, accountable, achievable, actionable, adaptable, addressable, adjustable, admirable, admissible, adoptable, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amble, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, assemble, attainable, attributable, audible, available, avoidable, babble, Babel, bankable, bauble, bearable, believable, bible, billable, biodegradable, bramble, breakable, bubble, buildable, Bumble, burnable, cable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, charitable, classifiable, cobble, coble, collapsible, collectible, Combinable, comfortable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compatible, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, constable, consumable, contemptible, contestable, controllable, convertible, copyrightable, corbel, countable, credible, creditable, crucible, crumble, culpable, curable, cymbal, dabble, debatable, deductible, defensible, definable, degradable, delectable, deliverable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, detectable, determinable, developable, Dibble, digestible, disable, disagreeable, disassemble, discernible, discountable, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, disreputable, dissemble, distinguishable, divisible, doable, double, Drabble, dribble, drinkable, drivable, durable, eatable, edible, electable, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enable, enforceable, enjoyable, ennoble, ensemble, enviable, equable, equitable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excitable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, exportable, extendable, extendible, fable, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, foible, forcible, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, forgivable, formidable, fumble, fungible, fusible, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, gullible, habitable, hardscrabble, harvestable, herbal, heritable, hobble, hon, honorable, horrible, hospitable, humble, identifiable, ignoble, illegible, imaginable, imitable, immeasurable, immiscible, immobile, immovable, immutable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, imperceptible, impermissible, implacable, implantable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incompatible, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, incredible, incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indestructible, indispensable, indisputable, indistinguishable, indivisible, indomitable, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inequitable, inescapable, inevitable, inexcusable, inexhaustible, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflatable, inflexible, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inscrutable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, insupportable, insurmountable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, interruptible, intertribal, intolerable, intractable, invaluable, investable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irrefutable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresistible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, irritable, issuable, jumble, justifiable, kibble, knowledgeable, label, lamentable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, libel, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, maneuverable, marble, marketable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, mislabel, mobile, moldable, movable, mumble, navigable, negligible, negotiable, nibble, nimble, noble, noncallable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, nonverbal, notable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palatable, palpable, parable, passable, patentable, payable, peaceable, pebble, perceptible, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, portable, possible, potable, practicable, preamble, predictable, preferable, presentable, preventable, printable, probable, profitable, programmable, prosecutable, provable, psychobabble, punishable, questionable, quibble, quotable, rabble, ramble, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, reassemble, rebel, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, redouble, redoubtable, reducible, refundable, regrettable, relabel, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, rentable, repairable, repayable, repeatable, replaceable, reportable, reprehensible, reputable, resealable, resemble, resettable, respectable, responsible, retractable, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, sable, salable, saleable, salvageable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, shamble, Sibyl, sizable, sizeable, sociable, soluble, solvable, spendable, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, stumble, submersible, suggestible, suitable, supportable, survivable, susceptible, sustainable, syllable, symbol, table, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, thimble, timetable, tolerable, traceable, tractable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, tunable, turntable, typeable, umbel, unable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbeatable, unbelievable, unbuildable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, undetectable, unelectable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninhabitable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unscramble, unserviceable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstable, unstoppable, unsuitable, unsupportable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, valuable, variable, vegetable, venerable, verbal, verifiable, veritable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, wamble, washable, wearable, winnable, wobble, workable.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-f-l"
	-2 letters: beef, feel, flee.
	-3 letters: bee, bel, eel, elf, fee, lee.
	-4 letters: be, ef, el.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-f-l"
	+1 letter: feebler.
	+2 letters: beefless, befleaed, enfeeble, feeblest, feedable, reefable.
	+3 letters: beefaloes, beflecked, enfeebled, enfeebles, referable.
	+4 letters: beflowered, defeasible, defendable, defensible, deferrable, effaceable, enfeebling, feebleness, preferable.
	+5 letters: deferrables, deflectable, enforceable, fermentable, foreseeable, perfectible.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 65 65 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-. . . -... .-.. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100101 01100101 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#101 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 0065 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
feeble	16
feeble smith	13
feeble mind	10
bmx feeble	4
feeble file	4
feeble grind	3
feeble gay penis	3
feeble file grabber machine	2
feeble gifs mind	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Feeble

Definitions: Feeble

Feeble

Adjective

Specialty Definitions: Feeble

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Synonyms: Feeble

Synonyms within Context: Feeble

Feebleness

Reasoning,

Weakness

Crosswords: Feeble

Modern Usage: Feeble

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Feeble

Books

Photo Album: Feeble

Familiar Quotations: Feeble

Edmund Burke

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth I

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Samuel Johnson

Senator Morris Sheppard

William Shakespeare

Use in Literature: Feeble

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Feeble

Economic History

Japan

Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Feeble

Dennis Miller

Usage Frequency: Feeble

Derived & Related Names: Feeble

Expressions: Feeble

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Feeble

feeble

feeble smith

feeble mind

bmx feeble

feeble file

feeble grind

feeble gay penis

feeble file grabber machine

feeble gifs mind

Modern Translations: Feeble

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