Word Meanings - FORCELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORCELESS)
- Feeble
- Wretched
- weak
- poor
- frail
- debilitated
- dull
- forceless
- puny
- nerveless
- enfeebled
- enervated
- faint
- infirm
- incomplete
- vain
- fruitless
- scanty
- pitiable
Related words: (words related to FORCELESS)
- FAINT
feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; - FRAILNESS
Frailty. - FRAIL
A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson. - ENERVATION
1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon. - NERVELESSNESS
The state of being nerveless. - FRAILTY
1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness; - ENFEEBLISH
To enfeeble. Holland. - INCOMPLETE
Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation , an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0. (more info) - FAINTLY
In a faint, weak, or timidmanner. - ENFEEBLER
One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble. - FEEBLENESS
The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak. - NERVELESS
1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne. - FRUITLESS
1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak. 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless - ENERVATIVE
Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. - WRETCHEDLY
In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable. - FEEBLE
OF. feble, flebe, floibe, floible, foible, F. faible, L. flebilis to 1. Deficient in physical strenght; weak; infirm; debilitated. Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. 2. Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action - ENERVATE
To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken; - INFIRMNESS
Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle. - PITIABLE
Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness. Syn. -- Sorrowful; woeful; sad. See Piteous. -- Pit"i*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pit"i*a*bly, adv. - INFIRMARIAN
A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution. - TAFFRAIL
The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern. - FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry - PROPITIABLE
Capable of being propitiated.