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Feebly — Fee bly, adv. In a feeble manner. [1913 Webster] The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
feebly — late 13c., from FEEBLE (Cf. feeble) + LY (Cf. ly) (2) … Etymology dictionary
feebly — adverb 1. in a faint and feeble manner the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway • Derived from adjective: ↑feeble 2. in a halting and feeble manner reform, in fact, is, rather… … Useful english dictionary
feebly — adv. Feebly is used with these verbs: ↑try … Collocations dictionary
feebly — feeble ► ADJECTIVE (feebler, feeblest) 1) lacking physical or mental strength. 2) failing to convince or impress: a feeble excuse. DERIVATIVES feebleness noun feebly adverb. ORIGIN Old French fieble, from Latin flebil … English terms dictionary
Feebly compact space — In mathematics, in the realm of topology, a topological space is said to be feebly compact if every locally finite cover by nonempty open sets is finite.Some facts:* Every compact space is feebly compact. * Every feebly compact paracompact space… … Wikipedia
feebly — adverb see feeble … New Collegiate Dictionary
feebly — adverb In a feeble manner … Wiktionary
feebly — adv. 1178 B.; [feblelike]. HD. 418 … Oldest English Words
feebly — adv. weakly, faintly; without strength or intensity, faintly; in a frail manner … English contemporary dictionary
