| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (II) Communication of Ideas | | Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas |
| Various Qualities of Style |
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| 575. Feebleness. |
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| NOUN: | FEEBLENESS &c. adj.; enervation, flaccidity, vapidity, poverty, frigidity.
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| ADJECTIVE: | FEEBLE, bald, tame, meager or meagre, insipid, watery, nerveless, jejune, vapid, trashy, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; prosing, prosy, prosaic, unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy [colloq.], sloppy, sketchy, slight; careless, slovenly, loose, disjointed, disconnected, lax; slipshod, slipslop; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling (diffuse) [See Diffuseness].
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