feebly

1. 1.

   in a faint and feeble manner

   “the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway”
2. 2.

   in a halting and feeble manner

   “reform, in fact, is, rather feebly, on the win”

Questions about feebly

What does feebly mean?

feebly means "in a faint and feeble manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in feebly?

feebly has 2 syllables: fee-bly. The stress falls on "fee". In IPA it is /ˈfibli/.

Is feebly a common word?

feebly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.