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# feebly

«feebly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Weakly, without strength or energy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (feebly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Weakly, without strength or energy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#m1)

2) In a poor, unconvincing way: he laughed feebly at the joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories to show that someone is tired, ill, frightened or not sure: the kitten mewed feebly. Alice often speaks feebly when she is confused or afraid.

### examples

- The baby bird chirped feebly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#x1)
- «I'm not sure,» said Alice feebly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#x2)
- He waved feebly from his hospital bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#x3)
- The torch shone feebly in the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#x4)
- Mole tried feebly to push the door open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#x5)
- She smiled feebly at the bad joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#x6)
- The old engine coughed feebly and stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#x7)
- Toad protested feebly when the Badger scolded him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#x8)
- The Prince perceived a small room black with smoke, lit up feebly by a fire from which issued long blue flames. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/#x9)

### note

Adverb of «feeble» (weak). Spelling: feeble → feebly (drop -le, add -ly). Opposite: strongly, firmly.

### In the corpora

- [Without them Toad is just Toad again, and he giggles feebly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «feebly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/feebly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.