Feebleness

Definition

feeble / 'fi:bl / adj ( - r / -blǝ(r)/; -st / -blÇst/) (က) အားနည္း ေသာ။ ခ်ည့္နဲ႔ေသာ။ အသံတိုးသြားေသာ။ မီးေရာင္မိွန္ေသာ။ a feeble old man ❍ a feeble cry ❍ a feeble lamp. (ခ) ( derog ) မထိေရာက္ေသာ။ မခိုင္လံုေသာ။ a feeble argument/attempt/excuse/joke. ❏ feebleness n [U] အားနည္းျခင္း။ မထိေရာက္ျခင္း။ မခိုင္လံုျခင္း။ ❏ feebly / 'fi:bli / adv ခ်ည့္ခ်ည့္နဲ႔နဲ႔။ အလင္းေရာင္ ခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့စြာ။ ေမွးမိွန္ေဖ်ာ့ေတာ့စြာ။ ❏ feeble-minded adj ( usu derog ) က်ပ္မျပည့္ေသာ။

Examples

1. A feeble light/voice
2. [feeble excuse] : That’s a pretty feeble excuse for not calling your mother.
3. [a feeble attempt/effort] : He made a feeble attempt to start a conversation with me.
4. Don’t be so feeble. Stand up to her for once.