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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The market for Japanese prints has quietly become one of the auction world’s success stories.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
This film had the quietly explosive power of a personal liberation.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of quietly

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All your zillennial and millennial friends, now adults with car insurance and vigorous SPF routines, have been watching cozy, faintly dissociative teen dramas in order to forget their troubles.

— Daisy Jones, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2026
The ceremonies are held at Nihi’s Nihioka sanctuary, an hour’s ride from the hotel through wide open rice fields and thick jungle, where emerald hills cascade down towards the sea and the sound of waves carries faintly across the valley.

— Charley Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 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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