FEEBLY Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

feebly

adverb

Definition of feebly

as in quietly

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Recent Examples of feebly Chief swam feebly across, joined the other two horses on the bank, and stood there shaking. — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026 Judge lined it feebly into the glove of an outfielder. — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 17 May 2026 Infantino, as Henry Bushnell writes, talked rather feebly about working together and, randomly, said an upcoming under-15 tournament for all member associations was something to encourage co-operation. — Phil Hay, New York Times, 1 May 2026 Heathcliff’s racial ambiguity — so central to the novel’s violence and otherness — is feebly erased. — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 11 Feb. 2026 One man aboard the boat knew how to navigate the mangroves and sandbars of the keys, and with the late summer sun beating down on the rafters, the boat pushed out feebly into the open ocean. — Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025

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Meanwhile, Alexey Tsydenov, head of the neighboring Buryatia republic, publicly confirmed her death was linked to a plague infection before quietly editing his statement hours later to use more ambiguous phrasing.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
The Chiefs beat the Raiders 30-27 to remain unbeaten and hand the surprising upstart Las Vegas its first loss — though the Raiders didn’t go quietly, reaching midfield on their final effort.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of quietly

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Three hours after Thomas Jefferson died at his Monticello home on July 4, 1826, his personal secretary, Nicholas Trist, snipped a lock of the Founder’s gray hair, still faintly reddish blond.

— Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026
The film is Bullock’s first in four years, and critics are ever-so-faintly praising her return to the big screen.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2026

Definition of faintly

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Small branches can be clipped quickly and almost noiselessly and fashioned into an effective blind in only a few minutes.

— Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
On a brilliant midsummer morning, my wife and I stepped into a black Zodiac raft and drifted noiselessly among icebergs five stories high, their emerald and aquamarine walls gleaming above sapphire waters.

— Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025

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