feebleadjective
uk/ˈfiː.bəl/us/ˈfiː.bəl/C2 weak and without energy, strength, or power:
He was a feeble, helpless old man.
The little lamp gave only a feeble light.
Opposition to the plan was rather feeble.
C2 not effective or good:
a feeble joke/excuse
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Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- man of straw
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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Useless and futile
feebly
adverb uk/ˈfiː.bli/us/ˈfiː.bli/