feeble

Modifying Another Word

• rather: We give what we really know are rather feeble excuses.
• pretty: They make our efforts look pretty feeble by comparison.
• however: He will never cut anything back: never remove a plant however feeble it has become.
• too: He was too feeble in body for the strain.
• increasingly: What people tend to forget to mention from the increasingly feeble Tory party is that they are wasting the poor's money.
• so: A mere thank you sounds so feeble but, THANK YOU.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• seem: This argument on its own may seem a bit feeble.

Modifies a noun

• excuse: She makes feeble excuse about no beer in fridge.
• imitation: There are many examples of the ways in which modern buildings can respect the character of older ones, without resorting to feeble imitation.
• attempt: All in all FAR FAR better than GB's feeble attempt to run a world class event.
• glow: The flame shrinks until it is just a feeble glow.
• joke: Should the previous sentence again be incomprehensible thanks to the computer, then, dear reader, try to guess the rather feeble joke.
• knee: May our weak hands and feeble knees be strengthened and our souls revived in such a way that we will magnify the Lord.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: On closer examination both of them seem rather feeble.
• grow: A time when mortal hearts slow, pulses growing feeble as their innocent souls ripen for death.
• become: With human wants, kind spirits may become feeble through hunger.
• look: Suddenly, the national central banks of the Euro area are looking rather feeble, putting huge pressure on the center in Frankfurt.
• feel: He felt so feeble that he was unable to do anything.
• remain: Even at this level, the investments remain very feeble.

Preposition: in

• extreme: The language, however is flat and feeble in the extreme in any case.