Feeble vs Wearish - What's the difference?
feeble | wearish |
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.
(obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
(obsolete, or, dialectal) Sickly, wizened, feeble.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
*:Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].
*, New York Review Books, 2001, p.16:
*:Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […].
In obsolete terms the difference between feeble and wearish
is that feeble is to make feeble; to enfeeble while wearish is tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.As a verb feeble
is 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.