Antonyms for feeble
ˈfi bəlfee·ble

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1. feebleadjective

   Synonyms:
   infirm, weak, debilitated

2. feebleadjective

   Synonyms:
   faint

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1. feeble

   Faint, with the general sense of lacking strength or effectiveness, covers a wide range of meaning, signifying overcome with physical weakness or exhaustion, or lacking in purpose, courage, or energy, as said of persons; or lacking definiteness or distinctness of color or sound, as said of written characters, voices, or musical notes. A person may be faint when physically wearied, or when overcome with fear; he may be a faint adherent because naturally feeble or purposeless, or because half-hearted in the cause; he may be a faltering supporter because naturally irresolute or because faint-hearted and timid in view of perils that threaten, a listless worker, through want of mental energy and purpose. Written characters may be faint or dim, either because originally written with poor ink, or because they have become faded by time and exposure.

   Antonyms:
   bright, brilliant, clear, conspicuous, daring, energetic, fresh, hearty, resolute, strong, sturdy, vigorous

   Synonyms:
   dim, exhausted, faded, faint, faint-hearted, faltering, fatigued, half-hearted, ill-defined, indistinct, irresolute, languid, listless, purposeless, timid, weak, wearied, worn, worn down, worn out

   Preposition:
   Faint with hunger; faint in color.

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1. feeble

   Antonyms:
   strong, robust, active, effective, successful, abundant

   Synonyms:
   wretched, weak, poor, frail, debilitated, dull, forceless, puny, nerveless, enfeebled, enervated, faint, infirm, incomplete, vain, fruitless, scanty, pitiable

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. feeble, lameadjective

   pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness

   "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

   Antonyms:
   strong, powerful, robust

   Synonyms:
   rickety, faint, debile, halt, nerveless, lame, sapless, halting, crippled, weakly, gimpy, infirm, decrepit, game, weak

2. faint, feebleadjective

   lacking strength or vigor

   "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"

   Antonyms:
   robust, strong, powerful

   Synonyms:
   weak, infirm, dim, weakly, swooning, rickety, lame, debile, nerveless, vague, faint-hearted, fainthearted, light-headed, timid, faint, lightheaded, decrepit, wispy, light, shadowy, sapless

3. decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weaklyadjective

   lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

   "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

   Antonyms:
   powerful, strong, robust

   Synonyms:
   weak, watery, infirm, unaccented, washy, shaky, weakly, debile, rickety, woebegone, lame, rachitic, nerveless, run-down, wonky, imperfect, creaky, faint, frail, decrepit, light, fallible, flea-bitten, wobbly, derelict, sapless

4. feeble, nervelessadjective

   lacking strength

   "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

   Antonyms:
   powerful, robust, strong

   Synonyms:
   cool, rickety, faint, debile, nerveless, lame, sapless, weakly, infirm, decrepit, weak, coolheaded

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1. feebleadjective

   Synonyms:
   infirm, doddering, weak

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1. pampas

   it is because the meaning of pampa is a vast grassy plain. but, the opposite of grassy is dead and weak

   {no antonym} the marvellous, greenery of the pampas in argentina {with antonym} the land was bare and dead not a soul was seen. not a droplet of water refreshed the land, not a river or dam in sight.

   Submitted by aminaallam.brownies on May 14, 2020  

How to use feeble in a sentence?

1. Ted Nugent:

   To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

2. James Bridie:

   Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

3. Horace Bushnell:

   If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

4. Albert Einstein:

   My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

5. Magha:

   A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

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