Feeble vs Morbid - What's the difference?
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Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 23
, author=Tom Fordyce
, title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France
, work=BBC Sport
Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
(obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.
(originally) Of, or relating to disease.
Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish
Grisly or gruesome.
Feeble is a related term of morbid.
As adjectives the difference between feeble and morbid
is that feeble is deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated while morbid is (originally) of, or relating to disease.As a verb feeble
is (obsolete) to make feeble; to enfeeble.feeble
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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.