English Explanatory Dictionary

forcible-feeble

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having a vigorous appearance, but in reality, weak or insipid.

Word forms

forcible-feeble more forcible-feeble most forcible-feeble

Etymology

From Francis Feeble, a character in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2, to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet forcible.

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