Word Meanings - INFIRMITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak. 2. A personal frailty or failing;

Additional info about word: INFIRMITY

1. The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak. 2. A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect. Will you be cured of your infirmity Shak. A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. Shak. The house has also its infirmities. Evelyn. Syn. -- Debility; imbecility; weakness; feebleness; failing; foible; defect; disease; malady. See Debility.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INFIRMITY)

• Caducity
• Decline
• infirmity
• decrepitude
• senility
• decadence
• transience
• delicacy
• Debility
• Weakness
• feebleness
• frailty
• incapacity
• imbecility
• enervation
• lassitude
• languor
• Foible
• Peccadillo
• failing
• fault
• weakness
• dilution
• impairment
• faintness
• inconclusiveness
• worthlessness
• want

Related words: (words related to INFIRMITY)

• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• 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;
• IMBECILITY
  The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• PECCADILLO
  A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. Sir W. Scott.
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• TRANSIENCE; TRANSIENCY
  The quality of being transient; transientness.
• DECLINE
  décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• FAILLE
  A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
• FAULTING
  The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
• DECADENCE; DECADENCY
  A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.' Sir W. Scott.
• WEAKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
• LANGUOR
  1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any enfeebling disease. Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif . 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess.
• DEBILITY
  The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot. Syn. -- Debility, Infirmity, Imbecility. An infirmity belongs, for the
• DECLINER
  He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.
• FAULT-FINDING
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• FOIBLE
  Weak; feeble. Lord Herbert.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• FINDFAULTING
  Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.
• FINDFAULT
  A censurer or caviler.