lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"
If you describe someone or something as feeble, you mean that they are weak. He told them he was old and feeble and was not able to walk so far The feeble light of a tin lamp. + feebly fee·bly His left hand moved feebly at his side
pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"
Another name for the foible, originating in Scottish fencing manuals The feeble or weak area of the blade toward the tip
lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument
If you describe something that someone says as feeble, you mean that it is not very good or convincing. This is a particularly feeble argument. = weak + feebly fee·bly I said `Sorry', very feebly, feeling rather embarrassed. = weakly