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Weakly vs Feeble - What's the difference?

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Weakly is a related term of feeble.


As adjectives the difference between weakly and feeble

is that weakly is frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak while feeble is deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.

As an adverb weakly

is with little strength or force.

As a verb feeble is

(obsolete) to make feeble; to enfeeble.

weakly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
  • * 1885', I lay in '''weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me. — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18
  • * 1889', I'd always been but ' weakly , / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Moll Magee’
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
  • *:"Oh, a huge crab," Jacob murmured—and begins his journey on weakly legs on the sandy bottom.
  • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With little strength or force
  • feeble

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
  • Though she appeared old and feeble , she could still throw a ball.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=France were transformed from the feeble , divided unit that had squeaked past Wales in the semi-final, their half-backs finding the corners with beautifully judged kicks from hand, the forwards making yards with every drive and a reorganised Kiwi line-out beginning to malfunction.}}
  • Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
  • That was a feeble excuse for an example.

    Synonyms

    * (physically weak) weak, infirm, debilitated * faint

    Derived terms

    * enfeeble * feebleness * feeble-minded * feebly

    Verb

    (feebl)
  • (obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.
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