feeble

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfeeblefee‧ble /ˈfiːbəl/ adjective 1 WEAKextremely weak OPP strong His voice sounded feeble and far away. She was too feeble to leave her room.► see thesaurus at weak2 EFFECTIVEnot very good or effective SYN weak a feeble excuse a rather feeble committeeExamples from the Corpusfeeble• Sales have gone up only by a feeble 0.1 percent.• He did not remember his sister at all, except as a tiny, feeble baby.• Reproaches, accusations, sadness - perhaps even feeble blows from feeble fists.• Such a feeble case should not have gone to court.• Compare the impact of the following feeble denouement with that of Oedipus who really was incestuous!• a feeble elderly woman in a wheelchair• My grandmother's very feeble now and needs someone at home full-time to look after her.• Nature sustains our feeble reason, and prevents it raving to this extent.• The smallest, feeblest stars, called M5 red dwarfs, have about 5 percent of the mass of our Sun.• His health was so feeble that he went to Florida and lived for six more years.• a feeble voiceOrigin feeble (1100-1200) Old French feble, from Latin flebilis “causing tears, weak”

单词	feeble
释义	feeble From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfeeblefee‧ble /ˈfiːbəl/ ●○○ adjective 1 WEAKextremely weak OPP strong His voice sounded feeble and far away. She was too feeble to leave her room.► see thesaurus at weak2 EFFECTIVEnot very good or effective SYN weak a feeble excuse a rather feeble committeeExamples from the Corpusfeeble• Sales have gone up only by a feeble 0.1 percent.• He did not remember his sister at all, except as a tiny, feeble baby.• Reproaches, accusations, sadness - perhaps even feeble blows from feeble fists.• Such a feeble case should not have gone to court.• Compare the impact of the following feeble denouement with that of Oedipus who really was incestuous!• a feeble elderly woman in a wheelchair• My grandmother's very feeble now and needs someone at home full-time to look after her.• Nature sustains our feeble reason, and prevents it raving to this extent.• The smallest, feeblest stars, called M5 red dwarfs, have about 5 percent of the mass of our Sun.• His health was so feeble that he went to Florida and lived for six more years.• a feeble voiceOrigin feeble (1100-1200) Old French feble, from Latin flebilis “causing tears, weak”
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