Feeble vs Strenuous - What's the difference?
feeble | strenuous |
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.
Urgent, ardent, zealous.
Requiring great exertion.
* 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
As adjectives the difference between feeble and strenuous
is that feeble is deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated while strenuous is urgent, ardent, zealous.As a verb feeble
is (obsolete) to make feeble; to enfeeble.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.
Synonyms
* (physically weak) weak, infirm, debilitated * faintDerived terms
* enfeeble * feebleness * feeble-minded * feeblyVerb
(feebl)References
* *strenuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.