feebly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a halting and feeble manner

   Reform, in fact, is, rather feebly, on the win.

2. 2
   adv

   in a faint and feeble manner

   The lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway.

From Middle English febly; equivalent to feeble + -ly, euphonically blending -le and -ly. Compare nimbly, nobly, and Latinate -ably and -ibly.

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