| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality.[Wordnet] 2. Lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless".[Wordnet] 3. Weak.[Websters] 4. Being decrepit. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being creaky. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being feeble, weak or nerveless. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb debily.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (debily) |
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective debile.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Date "Debile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Relaxed; weak; feeble; languid; faint; without strength.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adjective] (obsolete) Weak. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Debile fundamentum, fallit opus. | Law | Where there is a weak foundation, the work falls. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2068. (references) | |
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| Stylidium debile | 10 | Hieracium debile | 5 | |
| Hieracium debile | 5 | Stylidium debile | 10 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Daco-Rumanian | slãbãnog (debile, hidebound, invalid, thin, unmanly), bicisnic (debile, nerveless), anemic (anaemic, debile, faintly, feeble, weak). Additional references: Daco-Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, debile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Deutsch | Debilen (debile, moron), Debile (moron, debile), debil (moronic, debile, moronically, simple minded). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, debile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| German | Debilen (debile, moron), Debile (moron, debile), debil (moronic, debile, moronically, simple minded). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, debile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hebrew | דל שכל (debile), דבילי (debile). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, debile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High German | Debilen (debile, moron), Debile (moron, debile), debil (moronic, debile, moronically, simple minded). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, debile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hochdeutsch | Debilen (debile, moron), Debile (moron, debile), debil (moronic, debile, moronically, simple minded). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, debile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ivrit | דל שכל (debile), דבילי (debile). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, debile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Moldavian | slãbãnog (debile, hidebound, invalid, thin, unmanly), bicisnic (debile, nerveless), anemic (anaemic, debile, faintly, feeble, weak). Additional references: Moldavian, Romania, Hungary, debile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Romanian | slãbãnog (debile, hidebound, invalid, thin, unmanly), bicisnic (debile, nerveless), anemic (anaemic, debile, faintly, feeble, weak). Additional references: Romanian, Romania, Hungary, debile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Rumanian | slãbãnog (debile, hidebound, invalid, thin, unmanly), bicisnic (debile, nerveless), anemic (anaemic, debile, faintly, feeble, weak). Additional references: Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, debile. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
| Language | Translations for “debile” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Pig Latin | ebileday (debile). Additional references: Pig Latin, debile. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran A | lkug pa (become dumb, debile, dull, dumb, fool). Additional references: Terran A, debile. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | debiln (debile). Additional references: Terran B, debile. (volunteer) | |||
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