Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Weakness

Nouns
  • weakness etc. adj.
  • debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation
  • impotence etc. Impotence
  • infirmity
  • effeminacy, feminality
  • fragility, flaccidity
  • inactivity etc. Inactivity. anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood. declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength
  • delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia [Med.], sprain, strain. reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards. softling, weakling
  • infant etc. Infant
  • youth etc. Youth.
Verbs
  • be weak etc. adj.
  • drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave. render weak etc. adj.
  • weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate
  • unbrace, unnerve
  • cripple, unman etc. (render powerless) Impotence
  • cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of
  • dilute, impoverish
  • decimate
  • extenuate
  • reduce in strength, reduce the strength of
Adjectives
  • weak, feeble, debile
  • impotent etc. Impotence
  • relaxed, unnerved, c. v.
  • sapless, strengthless, powerless
  • weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic
  • nervous. soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly. frail, fragile, shattery
  • flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread
  • rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky
  • craichy
  • drooping, tottering etc. v.. broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky
  • palsied etc. Impotence
  • decrepit. languid, poor, infirm
  • faint, faintish
  • sickly etc. (disease) Disease
  • dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete
  • weather-beaten
  • decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear. unstrengthened etc. [Degree of power.] Strength, unsupported, unaided, unassisted
  • aidless, defenseless etc. Impotence
  • cantilevered (support) Support. on its last legs
  • weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat
  • weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water
  • colorless etc. [Absence of color.] Achromatism.