Word Meanings - FORCIBLEFEEBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.

• Matter-of-fact
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• Schoolbook
  A book used in schools for learning lessons.
• School-teacher
  One who teaches or instructs a school.
• Woulding
  Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity.
• Schoolboy
  A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.
• Schoolward
  Toward school.
• Wouldingness
  Willingness; desire.
• Offensive
  Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.
• Schooldame
  A schoolmistress.
• Seemingly
  In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.
• FEEBLEMINDED
  Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. "comfort the feeble-minded." 1 Thess. v. 14. -- Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness, n.
• Feeble-minded
  Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile.
• Schoolery
  Something taught; precepts; schooling.
• FORCIBLEFEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.
• Feebleness
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

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