- Word History, Word Explorer
|part of speech:
||without strength; weak in body or mind.
Although he is feeble, the old man walks a mile every day.
- faint, frail, puny, weak
- mighty, robust, stout, strong
- similar words:
- fragile, infirm, run-down, wan
||bad, delicate, meager, remote, scant, soft, thin, unhealthy
||feebly (adv.), feebleness (n.)
comes from flebeles
, a Latin word that means "to be wept over."