Qualities
Synonyms for feeble
Synonyms for feeble: faint, weak and lame. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for feeble
Interchangeable with feeble, one per sense
Audited under feeble's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one feeble carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name feeble as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- lamelame is an adjective in the sense "pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under feeble and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
lacking strength or vigor
A feeble voice.
The true synonym
faint
Same sentence, swapped: A faint voice.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- shaky
- drained
- reduced
lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
A feeble old woman.
The true synonym
weak
Same sentence, swapped: A weak old woman.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- lame
- drained
- reduced
Where feeble turns up in the game
feeble is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where feeble is the trap
- pliableadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is malleable, in the sense "capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out", and feeble is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play feeble
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so feeble reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. feeble carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.