✅ Attribute is the best word for an innate characteristic, or characteristics that are fundamental to the person or thing (Gentleness was one of his attributes; The fabric’s attributes included lightness and breathability).
✅ Quality can refer to innate or acquired characteristics (Her speech had a sad quality; the chemical quality of vinegar).
✅ You can gain certain qualities over time, by choice, or through circumstances. Attribute implies that you’ve always had a certain quality.
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✅ Hint means to express an idea indirectly, but intelligibly (He kept hinting about what he wanted for his birthday).
✅ Intimate means to indicate something in a barely perceptible way (She intimated with her eyebrows that the seller was lying).
✅ Unlike to hint, to intimate something is always subtle and is usually given in order to influence a course of action (I intimated that it would be better to see a movie than go skating).
✅ You would usually use intimate in serious contexts, and it can sound formal. Hint is more general (He hinted that he liked flowers; He intimated that he was willing to take bribes).
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✅ Weak and feeble both describe a lack of strength with weak as the more general and neutral word (The flu left him feeling weak).
✅ Feeble implies that someone is inferior, or lacks the ability or desire to do things above and beyond being too physically weak (It didn’t surprise me he stayed inside while we played in the snow—he had always been a feeble person).
✅ Weak and feeble can be used interchangeably in many circumstances. Feeble often connotes an inadequate attempt at something, when someone’s abilities should allow them to do better (It was a feeble attempt at sympathy; The essay was weak).
✅ Weak and feeble can also both be used to describe someone’s mental ability or faculties. When used in this way, both words have a judgmental or cruel implication.
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