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feebly

Syllables: feeb·ly/ˈfiːbli/

feebly adverb: in a feeble manner.

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Adverb

feebly (comparative more feebly, superlative most feebly)

  1. In a feeble manner.
    • Feebly ſhe ſhriekt, but ſo feebly indeed / That Britomart heard not the ſhrilling ſound.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 95
    • The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere nearby, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 215

feebly meaning in Malayalam

feebly in Malayalam

ദുർബ്ബലമായി, മങ്ങലായി, മന്ദമായി, ശക്തിയില്ലാതെ

Examples of feebly in a sentence

  • Most warts are due to microorganisms, and are feebly autoinoculable and contagious.
  • Denny slid over a couple of steps and swung feebly at it.
  • He feebly wanted to get out of this, away from clucking nurses and Dr.

All 11 example sentences with feebly

Forms of feebly

comparativemore feebly
superlativemost feebly

Origin of feebly

From Middle English febly; equivalent to feeble + -ly, euphonically blending -le and -ly. Compare nimbly, nobly, and Latinate -ably and -ibly.

Questions about feebly

What does feebly mean?
Feebly means in a feeble manner.
What is feebly in Malayalam?
Feebly in Malayalam is ദുർബ്ബലമായി, മങ്ങലായി, മന്ദമായി. See Feebly meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is feebly?
Feebly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce feebly?
Feebly is pronounced /ˈfiːbli/.

Words near feebly in the dictionary

  1. feeblest
  2. feeblest-minded
  3. feebling
  4. feeblings
  5. feeblish
  6. feebly
  7. feebs
  8. feechur
  9. feechurs
  10. feed
  11. feed a cold, starve a fever

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Adapted from Wiktionary: feebly (page history and authors); feebly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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.

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