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feebleness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of strength; ineffectiveness |
| Synonyms: | debility, decrepitude, delicacy, disease, effeteness, enervation, etiolation, exhaustion, flimsiness, frailness, frailty, inability, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectualness, infirmity, infirmness, insignificance, insufficiency, lameness, languor, lassitude, malaise, senility, sickliness, unhealthiness, weakness |
| Antonyms: | ability, effectiveness, health, heartiness, power, soundness, strength |
| Concept: | Feebleness. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
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feebleness
-adjectives
feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, trashy, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight; careless, slovenly, loose, lax; slipslod, slipslop; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling (diffuse).
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| Antonyms: | vigor |
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