Weakly vs Feeble - What's the difference?
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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.
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.
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
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Adjective
(er)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.