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weakness
noun
1 weakness
A flaw or weak point.
synonym: failing.
Roget 651:
imperfection;
imperfectness
etc.
adj.;
deficiency;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
peccancy
etc.
(badness)
649†;
immaturity
etc.
674.
fault,
defect,
weak point;
screw loose;
flaw
etc.
(break)
70;
gap
etc.
198;
twist
etc.
243;
taint,
attainder;
bar sinister,
hole in one's coat;
blemish
etc.
848;
weakness
etc.
160;
half blood;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
drawback;
seamy side.
mediocrity;
no great shakes,
no great catch;
not much to boast of;
one-horse shay.
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Roget 160:
weakness
etc.
adj.;
debility,
atony†,
relaxation,
languor,
enervation;
impotence
etc.
158;
infirmity;
effeminacy,
feminality†;
fragility,
flaccidity;
inactivity
etc.
683.
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.
129;
youth
etc.
127.
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Roget 945:
vice;
evil-doing,
evil courses;
wrongdoing;
wickedness,
viciousness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
peccability†,
demerit;
sin,
Adam†;
old Adam†,
offending Adam†.
immorality,
impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity,
looseness of morals;
enphagy†,
dophagy†,
exophagy†;
want of principle,
want of ballast;
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity†,
depravity,
pollution;
hardness of heart;
brutality
etc.
(malevolence)
907;
corruption
etc.
(debasement)
659;
knavery
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
profligacy;
flagrancy,
atrocity;
cannibalism;
lesbianism,
Sadism.
infirmity;
weakness
etc.
adj.;
weakness of the flesh,
frailty,
imperfection;
error;
weak side;
foible;
failing,
failure;
crying sin,
besetting sin;
defect,
deficiency;
cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice,
sink of iniquity,
Alsatian den†;
gusto picaresco [It].
fault,
crime;
criminality
etc.
(guilt)
947.
sinner
etc.
949.
[Resorts]
brothel
etc.
961;
gambling house
etc.
621;
joint [Slang],
opium den,
shooting gallery,
crack house.
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Roget 605:
irresolution,
infirmity of purpose,
indecision;
indetermination,
undetermination†;
unsettlement;
uncertainty
etc.
475;
demur,
suspense;
hesitating
etc.
v.,
hesitation,
hesitancy;
vacillation;
changeableness
etc.
149;
fluctuation;
alternation
etc.
(oscillation)
314;
caprice
etc.
608.
fickleness,
levity,
legerete [Fr.];
pliancy
etc.
(softness)
324;
weakness;
timidity
etc.
860;
cowardice
etc.
862;
half measures.
waverer,
ass between two bundles of hay;
shuttlecock,
butterfly;
wimp;
doughface [U.S.].
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Polish: słabość
2 weakness
Powerlessness revealed by an inability to act:
— In spite of their weakness the group remains active.
synonyms: helplessness, impuissance.
Polish: gamoniowatość, nieporadność, niezgulstwo, nieobrotność, ciapowatość, ofermowatość, gapowatość, kalectwo życiowe, ciamajdowatość, niezaradność
3 weakness
The property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain.
Dutch: zwakheid
4 weakness
The condition of being financially weak.
Dutch: faiblesse, zwakte, zwakheid
5 weakness
A penchant for something even though it might not be good for you.
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