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What is the adjective for feeble?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb feeble which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

feeble
  1. Deficient in physical strength
  2. Lacking force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; faint.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “When the time came for his arraignment, he was sick and feeble in bed, yet he was forced to rise.”
      “With a feeble murmur, her head drooped backward from a sudden spell of dizziness.”
      “Corentin went back to the cab, and drove to his rooms to assume the disguise of a feeble old man, in a scanty greenish overcoat and a tow wig.”
feeblesome
  1. Characterised or marked by feebleness; weak or faint
feeblish
  1. Somewhat feeble.
feebler
  1. comparative form of feeble: more feeble
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He challenged me with one of the feebler bits of rhetoric the faithful adopt to clinch the argument.”
      “Otherwise, the burden on the strong could become intolerable, and the weak would get feebler still.”
      “The temperature is never very high, the pulse is frequent and compressible, and becomes feebler as the animal loses strength.”
feeblest
  1. superlative form of feeble: most feeble
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He was unable to see how evolution in biology could have any but the feeblest analogical resemblance to the evolution of society.”
      “The Scots were able to ignore these failings in brushing aside the feeblest of Welsh challenges a fortnight ago.”
      “When the British finally gave up Boston, people fled the city in droves to escape the disease, and even the feeblest attempts at containment were no longer possible.”
feebled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of feeble
feebling
  1. present participle of feeble
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