Word.ws English Dictionary

feeblesome

feeblesome adjective: characterised or marked by feebleness; weak or faint.

Adjective

feeblesome (comparative more feeblesome, superlative most feeblesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by feebleness; weak or faint.
    • It ain't no cinch play that this female's deef, neither; which it's allers plain she hears the most feeblesome yelp of that infant, all the way from the dance-hall to the O. K. House, an' that means across the camp complete.1897, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville
    • Your work is off-color, your liver is wrong— You know it – yet when he butts in, With a little sly jolly, somehow you brace up And scare up a feeblesome grin.1903, The Anamosa Prison Press, volume 6

Forms of feeblesome

comparativemore feeblesome
superlativemost feeblesome

Origin of feeblesome

From feeble + -some.

Questions about feeblesome

What does feeblesome mean?
Feeblesome means characterised or marked by feebleness; weak or faint.
What part of speech is feeblesome?
Feeblesome is an adjective.

Words near feeblesome in the dictionary

  1. feebleness
  2. feeblenesses
  3. feebler
  4. feebler-minded
  5. feebles
  6. feeblesome
  7. feebless
  8. feeblest
  9. feeblest-minded
  10. feebling
  11. feeblings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: feeblesome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “feeblesome.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/feeblesome. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.