feeblesome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by feebleness; weak or faint.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "And ef it hadn't 'a' been fur me and Doc Lew Lake and Jimmy Bagby and three-four others raisin' a feeblesome imitation of the Rebel Yell ez we went past, there'd 'a' been no tribute atall fur the man who marched away in '61 leadin' this town's fust company of volunteers, and come back in '65, a full brigadier bringin' whut wuz left [...]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Anglo-Norman feblebor. Middle English feble English feeble Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English feeblesome From feeble + -some.
Inflected Forms
more feeblesome (comparative)
most feeblesome (superlative)