FEEBLEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈfiːbəl/
• 韻: -iːbəl

形容詞

feeble (comparative feebler, superlative feeblest)

1. Deficient in physical strength.

   Though she appeared old and feeble, she could still throw a ball.

   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:

     Pent up in Utica he vainly forms
     A poor Epitome of Roman Greatneſs,
     And, cover’d with Numidian Guards, directs
     A feeble Army, and an empty Senate,
     Remnants of mighty Battels fought in vain.

   • 2003, “Figure Number Five”, performed by Soilwork:

     You've had your time
     Gonna walk that line
     Like a living travesty,
     Endlessly bound to your sins
     I'll hunt you down in time
     You're just a feeble swine
     How can I compromise
     When all you do is deny

   • 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

2. Lacking force, vigor, or effectiveness in action or expression; faint.

   That was a feeble excuse for an example.

同意語

• (physically weak): weak, infirm, debilitated
• (wanting force, vigor or efficiency): faint

派生語

動詞

feeble (third-person singular simple present feebles, present participle feebling, simple past and past participle feebled)

1. (obsolete) To make feeble; to enfeeble.

参照

• “feeble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “feeble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

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