weakness

Roget category 160

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.8. Causation
›› 1.8.2. Connection between cause and effect

#160. Weakness

noun

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.

verb

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) 158 — cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of — dilute, impoverish — decimate — extenuate — reduce in strength, reduce the strength of — mettre de l'eau dans son vin [Fr.].

adjective

weak, feeble, debile^† — impotent etc. 158 — relaxed, unnerved, etc. 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. 158 — decrepit.
languid, poor, infirm — faint, faintish^† — sickly etc. (disease) 655 — 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. 159^†, unsupported, unaided, unassisted — aidless^†, defenseless etc. 158 — cantilevered (support) 215.
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. 429.

phrase

non sum qualis eram [Lat.].

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