Dainty vs Feeble - What's the difference?
dainty | feeble |
(obsolete) Esteem, honour.
A delicacy.
* 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
* (William Cowper)
(Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event (usually plural).
(obsolete)
(obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
*, II.13:
Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
* Milton
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Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
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Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
(obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between dainty and feeble
is that dainty is (obsolete) excellent; valuable, fine while feeble is (obsolete) to make feeble; to enfeeble.As adjectives the difference between dainty and feeble
is that dainty is (obsolete) excellent; valuable, fine while feeble is deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.As a noun dainty
is (obsolete) esteem, honour.As a verb feeble is
(obsolete) to make feeble; to enfeeble.dainty
English
Noun
(dainties)- my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties .
- [A table] furnished plenteously with bread, / And dainties , remnants of the last regale.
- (Ben Jonson)
Adjective
(er)- Heliogabalus the most dissolute man of the world, amidst his most riotous sensualities, intended, whensoever occasion should force him to it, to have a daintie death.
- Those dainty limbs which nature lent / For gentle usage and soft delicacy.
- They were a fine and dainty people.
- And let us not be dainty of leave taking, / But shift away.
Synonyms
* neat * petiteReferences
*feeble
English
Adjective
(er)- Though she appeared old and feeble , she could still throw a ball.
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- That was a feeble excuse for an example.