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Definition of Feeble

1. Adjective. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness. "A lame argument"

2. Adjective. Lacking strength or vigor. "A feeble voice"

3. Adjective. Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality. "Her body looked sapless"

4. Adjective. Lacking strength. "A weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"

Definition of Feeble

1. a. Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.

2. v. t. To make feble; to enfeeble.

Definition of Feeble

1. Adjective. Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated. ¹

2. Adjective. Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint. ¹

3. Verb. (obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feeble

1. weak [adj -BLER, -BLEST] : FEEBLY [adv] - See also: weak

Medical Definition of Feeble

1. 1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. "Carried all the feeble of them upon asses." (2 Chron. Xxviii. 15) 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble colour; feeble motion. "A lady's feeble voice." Origin: OE. Feble, OF. Feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. Faible, L. Flebilis to be wept over, lamentable, wretched, fr. Flere to weep. Cf. Foible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feeble

fee schedules fee simple fee simple determinable fee simple subject to condition subsequent fee simple subject to executory interest fee simple subject to executory limitation fee simples determinable fee simples subject to condition subsequent fee simples subject to executory interest fee simples subject to executory limitation

fee splitting fee tail feeb feebate feebates feeble (current term) feeble-minded feeble-mindedness feebled feebleminded

feeblemindedly feeblemindedness feebleness feeblenesses feebler feebles feeblest feebling feeblish feebly

Literary usage of Feeble

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by American Social Science Association, National Conference on Social Welfare, Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1888)
"We have employed the word " feeble-minded " in a general sense, ... As we are led to conceive of it, then, the institution for feeble-minded should perform ..."

2. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse, Carnegie Institution of Washington Dept. of Economics and Sociology (1908)
"Recommendation that bldg. exclusively for females of feeble-minded class be erected; also for erection of suitable bldg. for extreme classes of Idiots. ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"It will be observed that the feeble-minded and blind are more common than any other combination in the first generation, while in the second and third ..."

4. Popular Science Monthly (1912)
"Black squares and circles with a white "F" mean feeble-minded persons; N means normal. When there is no letter the condition is not known. ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... who so accurately guided the steps of their royal pupil, could not infuse into his feeble and indolent character the vigorous and independent principle ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"The field of course, is not very attractive and the scope is distinctly limited, but the fact that the feeble-minded do have psychoses and that the ..."

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