Definition of Feeble

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Feeble

Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.

Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.

To make feble; to enfeeble.

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Feeble Quotations

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
Henry Miller

A feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
Ralph Nader

Feeble Translations

feeble in German is schwach
feeble in Latin is tenuis, consenesco
feeble in Norwegian is svak
feeble in Swedish is matt, klen, svag

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